Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) of the Mpala Research Centre and environs, Laikipia District, Kenya
Author
Gordon, Robert D.
Northern Plains Entomology P. O. Box, 65 Willow City, ND 58384 USA
Author
Bordat, Patrice
Lagasse, F- 82300 Saint-Cirq, France
Author
Dellacasa, Giovanni
C. P. 921, I- 1612 Genova, Italy
Author
Dellacasa, Marco
Centro Interdipartimentale, Museo di Storia Naturalle e del Territorio Università di Pisa, via Roma 79, I- 56011 Calci (Pisa) Italy
text
Insecta Mundi
2008
2008-03-03
2008
28
1
15
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.4532811
1942-1354
4532811
Key to
Laikipia
species of
Labarrus
1. Male head with median tubercle small, indistinct, head flat in both sexes; elytral intervals densely, rather coarsely punctured ...............................................................
L meruensis
(Petrovitz)
— Male head with median tubercle large, distinct, head convex in both sexes; elytral intervals not noticeably punctate, or with punctures indistinct ...................................................................
2
2(1). Hind tibia with superior apical spur widened at middle, distinctly longer than first tarsal segment; middle tibia with male inferior apical spur feebly broadened and obliquely truncate apically in both sexes .................................................................................................
L. lividus
(Olivier)
— Hind tibia with superior apical spur evenly acuminate from base to apex, widest at base, approximately as long as first tarsal segment or slightly longer; middle tibia with inferior apical spur evenly widened, acuminate apically in both sexes ................................................... .................................................................................................
L. pseudolividus
(Balthasar)