New species and records of Copris (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeinae) from Central America
Author
Kohlmann, Bert
Author
Delgado, Enio Cano And Leonardo
text
Zootaxa
2003
167
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.156784
7450e6f5-2d35-43f7-9cbc-5aa4eab735b6
11755326
156784
Key to the species of the
remotus
complex based on the major males
1. Head unarmed having only a gibbosity, clypeus tridentate; thorax unarmed.
Costa Rica
........................................................................................
tridentatus
Solís & Kohlmann
Head armed with a horn, clypeus bidentate; thorax armed .......................................... 2
2. Pygidial margin incomplete, its inner border completely effaced ventrally. Chiapas,
Guatemala
,
Costa Rica
and
Panamá
..............................................
costaricencis
Gahan
Pygidial margin complete, its inner border entirely engraved ...................................... 3
3. Eighth elytral stria incomplete; frontal pronotal declivity with a carina running through its middle ....................................................................................................... 4
Eighth elytral stria complete; frontal pronotal declivity without a carina running through its middle ....................................................................................................... 5
4. Antennae darkbrown; male anterolateral pronotal angles not forming median point, but presenting an excavation behind these angles (
Fig. 4
), median pronotal prominences diverging (
Fig. 1
).
Guatemala
.
caliginosus
Kohlmann, Cano & Delgado
,
n. sp.
Antennae reddishbrown; male anterolateral pronotal angles forming a small downwardly directed median point and separated from the angles by a more or less level area (
Fig. 4
), median pronotal prominences strongly diverging (
Fig. 2
).
Guatemala
and
Honduras
.............................................
nubilosus
Kohlmann, Cano and Delgado,
n. sp.
5. Protibial apical spur abruptly bent inward very near apex. Oklahoma, Texas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas ..............................................................
remotus
LeConte
Protibial apical spur curved or slightly curved inward (
Fig. 3
) ................................... 6
6. Anterior pronotal margin with a minute, acute median tooth (
Fig. 3
); elytral striae with large, less transverse punctures, distinctly crenating the margins of the strial channels; protibial apical spurs blunt (
Fig. 3
). Veracruz to Chiapas ........................
sallei
Harold
Anterior pronotal margin not forming any median point or angle; elytral striae with fine, very transverse punctures which at most only slightly crenate the edges of the channel; protibial apical spurs pointed. Michoacán
..
mexicanus
Matthews and Halffter