Two new Oedanomerus species from Zimbabwe (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Tanyproctini)
Author
Sehnal, Richard
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-02-05
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4377.4.10
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Oedanomerus squamosus
Lacroix, 2005
(
Figs. 1C
,
2C
,
3C
,
4C, 4G
,
5G
)
Type
material studied.
Holotype
: “
HOLOTYPE
[red label, printed] |
Botswana
| Shakawe—Camp |
22.-24. ii. 1958
|
leg. U. Göllner [blue label, printed] ||
Oedanomerus
|
squamosus
n. sp.
[handwritten] | M. LACROIX det. 2005 [white
label, printed]” deposited in Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Gemeinschaft,
Berlin
,
Germany
.
Other
material studied.
Namibia
:
Kavango region
:
130 km
E Rundu
,
1030 m
,
13–31.xii. 2013
,
S. Murzin
, two
males deposited in
Národní
muzeum
Praha
,
Czech Republic
,
22 males
deposited in Richard Sehnal collection, Velenice,
Czech Republic.
Note.
To date, the species has been known only from the
holotype
. Specimens from
Kavango Region
near Rundu (
Fig. 4G
) represent the only additional material collected outside of the
type
locality. The species is recorded here for the first time from
Namibia
. Variability in males (between
holotype
and males from
Kavango
): body length
5.1–8.2 mm
(
holotype
= 8.0), slightly variable in dorsal punctation density and length and distribution of scales. Color as in
holotype
. Detailed photographs are here presented for the first time.