A new brachypterous species of Phoberus MacLeay (Coleoptera: Trogidae) and status changes of species in the East African P. nigrociliatus group
Author
Strümpher, Werner P.
Author
Scholtz, Clarke H.
text
Zootaxa
2017
4216
3
292
298
journal article
37356
10.5281/zenodo.231847
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1175-5326
231847
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Phoberus nyassicus
(Haaf)
new status
(
Fig. 5A
–D)
Trox nigrociliatus nyassicus
Haaf, 1953
: 330
Trox
(
Trox
)
nigrociliatus nyassicus
:
Scholtz 1980
: 93
;
Scholtz 1982
: 5
Trox
(
Phoberus
)
nigrociliatus nyassicus
:
Scholtz 1986
: 361
;
Zidek 2013
: 13
Phoberus nigrociliatus nyassicus
:
Strümpher
et al
. 2016
: 78
Diagnosis.
Phoberus nyassicus
is very similar to
P. nyikanus
in appearance, but can be distinguished from the latter by distinct, evenly spaced tubercles on the elytra;
P. nyikanus
has the tubercles partially fused, forming semicontinuous ridges.