Two new species of the Phanaeusendymion species group (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae)
Author
Moctezuma, Victor
Author
Sanchez-Huerta, Jose Luis
Author
Halffter, Gonzalo
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ZooKeys
2017
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113
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.702.14728
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.702.14728
1313-2970-702-113
CB6B3D9E27494ACCA78CD0A58C41A348
Phanaeus halffterorum Edmonds, 1979
Figs 1, 2, 3, 4
Phanaeus halffterorum
:
Edmonds (1979
: 99; partim),
Halffter and Edmonds (1982
: 88-89),
Anduaga and Halffter (1991
: 157),
Delgado-Castillo et al. (1993
: 125),
Edmonds (1994
: 39-43, 101),
Anduaga (2000
: 125, 130),
Arnaud (2002
: 95-96),
Edmonds (2003
: 61, 65),
Edmonds (2006
: 31, 34, 36),
Ceballos et al. (2009
: 397),
Edmonds and
Zidek
(2012
: 3, 5, 12, 52, 54),
Deloya et al. (2014
: 77),
Moctezuma and Halffter (2017
: 52, 54-55),
Lizardo et al. (in press)
.
Type material examined
(5 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀). Paratypes (TAMU): 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ labeled "MEXICO: Mexico, 5 km E Temascaltepec, Real de Arriba, 2200 m, 10-VII-1976, Fungus, oak-pine forest, W.D. Edmonds, P. Reyes, B. Kohlmann cols."; 2 ♂♂ labeled "MEXICO: Mexico, 8 km W Temascaltepec, 2360 m, 11-VII-76, Fungus in pine-oak forest, W.D. Edmonds, P. Reyes and B. Kohlmann cols."; 1 ♂ labeled "Real de Arriba, Dist. Temascaltepec, Edo. Mex., VII-1932, 6300 ft, Mexico D.F., Hinton Coll. B.M.1939-583".
Figure 1.
Phanaeus halffterorum
major male, dorsal view (paratype).
Figure 2.
Phanaeus halffterorum
major male, lateral view (paratype).
Figure 3. Lamella copulatrix of
Phanaeus halffterorum
(paratype). Abbreviations: LL: left lobe, CR: central ridge, RL: right lobe.
Figure 4.
Phanaeus halffterorum
female, dorsal view (paratype).
Distribution and ecology.
This species is known from the environs of Temascaltepec, State of Mexico (Fig. 5), and inhabits pine-oak forests from 2200-2360 m. a.s.l.
Phanaeus halffterorum
is considered a mycetophagous species (
Edmonds 1979
,
1994
,
Halffter and Edmonds 1982
).
Figure 5. Distribution of
Phanaeus halffterorum
(red triangle),
P. bravoensis
sp. n. (blue circle) and
P. huichol
sp. n. (purple diamonds).