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
Gonaphodioides sincerus
(
Petrovitz, 1973
)
new combination
(
Fig. 94-98
)
Aphodius
(
Gonaphodiellus
)
sincerus
Petrovitz, 1973: 142
;
Dellacasa 1988: 240
.
Gonaphodiellus
(
s. l.
)
sincerus
;
Skelley et al. 2007: 4
.
Type
locality:
Cuyabá,
Mato Grosso
,
Brasilien
[
Brazil
].
Type
repository.
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle,
Geneva
,
Switzerland
(
type
examined).
Redescription.
Length 3.5-4.0 mm; oblong, convex, moderately shiny, glabrous. Reddish-testaceous; basal margin of pronotum and elytral suture brown-reddish; legs yellowish; antennal club pale yellow. Head with epistome shiny, slightly gibbous on disc, finely rather sparsely somewhat irregularly punctured; clypeus angulately sinuate at middle, subangulate at sides, very finely bordered, edge slightly upturned, glabrous; genae obtusely round, very shortly ciliate, not protruding from the eyes; frontal suture distinctly impressed; front coarsely, rather densely, regularly punctured. Pronotum transverse, moderately convex, shiny, rather irregularly punctured; punctation sparser and more superficial on disc, denser and more coarse on sides; intermingled with the large punctures there are many extremely minute and nearly imperceptible punctures; lateral margin feebly arcuate, finely bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles widely truncate; truncature inwardly sinuate; base distinctly bisinuate. Scutellum elongate superficially microreticulate, almost impunctate. Elytra oval-elongate, moderately convex; epipleural carina distinct at shoulder; striae fine and rather superficial on disc, wide and deeper toward apex, superficially punctured, almost not crenulate; interstriae feebly convex, on disc superficially microreticulate on each side near striae, more strongly microreticulate and almost dull on preapical declivity, sparsely and very finely punctured. Hind tibiae upper spur one third shorter than first tarsal segment; first tarsal segment somewhat shorter than following four segments combined. Male: head and pronotum relatively more wide, and less coarsely punctured; aedeagus
Fig. 97-98
. Female: head and pronotum relatively narrower, more convex and more coarsely punctured.
Material examined.
BOLIVIA
:
Santa Cruz
,
Buena Vista
vic.,
Flora
&
Fauna Hotel
,
22-26.X.2000
, leg.
Morris
&
Wappes
(6 exx.,
DCGI
,
MCGA
)
;
Santa Cruz
, 3.7
Km
SSE
Buena Vista
,
Hotel Flora
&
Fauna
, m 430,
23-26.X.2000
, leg.
Thomas M. C.
, tropical transition forest (3 exx.,
FSCA
)
;
idem
,
14- 28.X.2000
, leg.
Dozier B. K.
(
1 ex.
,
FSCA
)
;
Santa Cruz
, 5
Km
ESE
Warnes
, Hotel
Rio Selva
,
20.X.2000
, leg.
Thomas M. C.
, black light (3 exx.,
FSCA
)
.
BRAZIL
:
Ariquemes
, nr.
Fazenda Rancho Grande
,
Rondonia
,
03-15.XII.1996
, leg.
Eger J. E.
,
black light trap
(4 exx.,
DCGI
)
;
Bahia
,
Encruzilhada
, m 980,
XI.1972
, leg.
Alvarenga M.
(
1 ex.
,
DCGI
)
;
Mato Grosso
,
Cuyaba
(
1 ex.
,
male
, type of
Aphodius
(
Gonaphodiellus
)
sincerus
Petrovitz, 1973
,
MHNG
)
;
Minas Gerais
,
Viçosa
,
XI.1996
, leg.
Vaz de Mello F.
(2 exx.,
DCGI
,
ISEA
)
;
Sao Paulo
,
Sidrolandia
,
Route Campo Grande-Sao Paulo
,
Pk
68, leg.
Degallier N.
, piège d’interception (
1 ex.
,
BCSC
)
.
PARAGUAY
:
Dept.
Guaira
,
Calle Forida
,
VIII.1993
(
1 ex.
,
DCGI
)
.
Distribution.
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Paraguay
.
Bionomics.
Almost unknown. The specimens examined were collected in summer and autumn.