New brachypterous species of Dichotomius Hope, with taxonomic notes in the subgenus Luederwaldtinia MartÃnez (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
Author
Nunes, Rafael V.
Author
Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z.
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-01-31
3609
4
411
420
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3609.4.3
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1175-5326
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Dichotomius sexdentatus
(Luederwaldt)
and
D. simplicicornis
(Luederwaldt)
Luederwaldt (1936)
created the
D
.
calcaratus
species group to accommodate
D. calcaratus
(Arrow)
,
D. sexdentatus
(Luederwaldt)
, and
D. simplicicornis
(Luederwaldt)
.
Vulcano
et al
. (1976)
transfered
D. calcaratus
to the
D
.
buqueti
species group (then in the subgenus
Dichotomius
). With the transfer of the nominate species to another species group, the two remaining species,
D. sexdentatus
and
D. simplicicornis
should be placed in different species groups.
After examining the
holotype
(MZSP), we place
D. sexdentatus
in the
D
.
crinicollis
species group for the following reasons: it has a tooth on clypeal genal junction (
Fig. 2
B) and its hypomeron bears dense, long and curved, red pilosity (
Fig. 2
D). After examining the
holotype
of
D. simplicicornis
(located in the NHML) and scrutinizing the original description, we place this species in the
D
.
agenor
species group based on the cephalic horn in males constituting a transverse carina with a strong central tooth and two lateral teeth (
Fig. 2
H), which is a shared characteristic with other species in this species group.