Food Relocation Behavior and Synopsis of the Southern South American Genus Glyphoderus Westwood (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Eucraniini)
Author
Ocampo, Federico C.
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2004
2004-06-30
58
2
295
305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/685
journal article
10.1649/685
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Glyphoderus sterquilinus
(
Westwood, 1837
)
(
Figs. 5
,
6
)
Glyphoderus sterquilinus
(
Westwood, 1837
)
:13.
Anomiopsis sterquilinus
Westwood, 1837:13
. Original combination.
Diagnosis.
Males. This species is separated from other
Glyphoderus
species
by the shape and placement of the pronotal horns and tubercles (
Fig. 5
).
Glyphoderus sterquilinus
has the pronotum with two horns in middle and two transversally elongated tubercles (sometimes developed as horns) on basal half; horns on margin of central depression; tubercles of basal half included in central depression; apical medial horn with ‘‘arms’’ robust, with anteromedial notch. Some specimens of
G. sterquilinus
have the posterior pronotal tubercles on the central depression margin (observed particularly in minor males), in this case, the shape of the medial horn will separate this species from
G. monticola
(
Figs. 4
,
5
). No morphological characters were found to diagnose females of this species, females can be identified only by association with males.
Distribution
(
Fig. 6
).
ARGENTINA
:
Mendoza
:
Las Catitias (
7 km
S) (6); Santa Rosa (1); Villavicencio (1).
La Rioja
:
Chepes (2); Ulapes (
17 km
S) (28); Ulapes (
10 km
N) (8).
San Juan
:
Encón (
12 km
E) (1); Nikizanga (2); Morayes –Astica road (1).
San Luis
:
Jarilla (1);
La Chañarienta
(2); San Antonio (5); Talita (8); no more data (11)
.
Santiago del Estero
:
No more data (6).