Systematic revision of Gonaphodiellus taxa, with description of two new genera and fourteen new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae)
Author
Dellacasa, Marco
Museo di Storia Naturale e del Territorio Università di Pisa Via Roma, 79 I- 56011 Calci (Pisa), Italy
dellacasa@museo.unipi.it
Author
Dellacasa, Giovanni
Via Talamone 31 / 19 I- 16127 Genova, Italy
dellacasag@alice.it
Author
Gordon, Robert D.
Northern Plains Entomology P. O. Box 65 Willow City, ND 58384 USA
rdgordon@utma.com
text
Insecta Mundi
2012
2012-04-06
2012
230
1
41
journal article
55533
10.5281/zenodo.5174222
b0a0b4e7-7c0d-4b51-9a59-156975677df7
1942-1354
5174222
Gonaphodiopsis montesdeocai
new species
(
Fig. 114-119
)
Type
locality.
Xuatusco env., Parada der los Pinos,
Veracruz
,
Mexico
.
Type
repository.
Dellacasa Collection, Genoa,
Italy
.
Description.
Length 3.5-4.5 mm; shortly oblong, strongly convex, shiny, glabrous. Chestnut brown; pronotum usually darker, elytra shadowy paler basally and apically; legs chestnut brown; antennal club piceous. Head with epistome feebly convex, slightly depressed antero-medially, coarsely, densely, somewhat irregularly punctured throughout; clypeus moderately sinuate at middle, round at sides, finely bordered, edge faintly reflexed, very shortly, sparsely bristled; genae obtusely round, nearly imperceptibly bristled, almost not protruding from the eyes; frontal suture finely impressed, not tuberculate; front coarsely, densely, evenly punctured. Pronotum moderately transverse, convex, dually punctured; large coarse punctures, four to five times larger than small ones, much denser on sides, sparser and fewer on disc; small, very fine punctures evenly sparse throughout; lateral margins nearly straight, rather finely bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles distinctly truncate, truncation very feebly sinuate inwardly; base feebly bisinuate. Scutellum narrowly elongate, somewhat depressed laterally, sparsely finely punctured on basal half. Elytra broadened posteriorly, convex, denticulate at shoulder, deeply striate; striae coarsely, not closely punctured, crenulate; interstriae moderately convex on disc, subcariniform on preapical declivity, near imperceptibly punctured. Hind tibiae upper spur shorter than first tarsal segment; first tarsal segment longer than following three segments combined. Male: pronotum relatively a little more transverse, less convex and more sparsely punctured; fore tibiae spur somewhat stouter and shorter; aedeagus
Fig. 118-119
. Female: pronotum relatively less transverse, more convex and more densely punctured; fore tibiae spur somewhat slender and almost straight.
Type material.
MEXICO
:
Veracruz
:
Xico
,
Camino
a
Ixtlapa
,
19°25’10"N
–
97°02’09"W
, m 1330,
VI.2000
, leg.
Montes-de-Oca E.
&
Santiago Q.
, pastizal para ganado, trampa excr. vaca (
5 paratypes
,
DCGI
,
MDOX
)
;
idem
,
19°25’22"N
–
97°02’08"W
, m 1390,
XII.1999
-
I.2000
, leg.
Montes-de-Oca E.
&
Santiago Q.
, pastizal para ganado, trampa excr. vaca (
3 paratypes
,
MDOX
)
;
Xico
,
19°25’10"N
–
97°02’09"W
, leg.
Montes-de-Oca E.
&
Santiago Q.
, (
2 paratypes
,
MDOX
)
;
Xico
,
Rancho Pextlán
,
19°25’28"N
–
97°01’43"W
, m 1465,
08.VI.2005
, leg.
Martínez I.
,
Cruz M.
&
Suarez T.
(
1 paratype
,
DCGI
)
;
Xuatusco
env.,
Parada der los Pinos
,
08.XI.1999
, leg.
Dellacasa M.
(
male
holotype
,
and
allotype
,
DCGI
)
.
Distribution.
Mexico
(
Veracruz
).
Etymology.
Named in honor of Enrique Montes de Oca, Mexican biologist.
Bionomics.
Almost unknown. The specimens of the
type
series were collected in June, November and December, most of them with pitfall traps baited with cow dung.