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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.344.6101" ID-GBIF-Dataset="fee7883d-5d66-41b6-8183-f896820b046b" ID-PMC="PMC3817437" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-344-73" ID-PubMed="24194661" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2013" ModsDocID="1313-2970-344-73" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 344" ModsDocTitle="Description and ecology of two new species of Gyronotus van Lansberge, 1874 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from southern Africa" checkinTime="1451246770011" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Moretto, Philippe & Perissinotto, Renzo" docDate="2013" docId="9D5AF39022303E459771F28FC6098041" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 344: 73-82" docOrigin="ZooKeys 344" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.344.6101" docTitle="Gyronotus schuelei Moretto, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="76" masterDocId="A43BD70C6E3FFFA9FF8FE752FF80D057" masterDocTitle="Description and ecology of two new species of Gyronotus van Lansberge, 1874 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from southern Africa" masterLastPageNumber="82" masterPageNumber="73" pageNumber="75" updateTime="1668156674279" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Description and ecology of two new species of Gyronotus van Lansberge, 1874 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from southern Africa</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Moretto, Philippe</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Perissinotto, Renzo</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2013</mods:date>
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<mods:number>344</mods:number>
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<mods:start>73</mods:start>
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<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.344.6101</mods:url>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.344.6101</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-344-73</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152048971" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:8C6B0DE7-D83F-42A3-A35F-FD5EB536A18C" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/9D5AF39022303E459771F28FC6098041" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="76" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/8C6B0DE7-D83F-42A3-A35F-FD5EB536A18C" authority="Moretto" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Gyronotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gyronotus schuelei" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="75" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="schuelei">Gyronotus schuelei Moretto</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="2" pageNumber="75">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figures 2
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Type locality.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Western Swaziland (26°08'18"-26°29'33"S; 31°08'13"-31°11'02"E); in mountain grassland with pockets of sour bushveld.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="2" pageNumber="75" type="type specimens">
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Type specimens.</paragraph>
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Holotype ♂: Swaziland, Mlilwane, 28.III.1997, R. Perissinotto & L. Clennell legit (PMOC). Allotype ♀: 19/20.XI.2001, Swaziland, Malolotja Nature Reserve, P.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Schüle">Schuele</normalizedToken>
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legit (PMOC).
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<subSubSection pageId="2" pageNumber="75" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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This species shows its closest affinity to
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Gyronotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gyronotus glabrosus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="75" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="glabrosus">Gyronotus glabrosus</taxonomicName>
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Scholtz & Howden, 1987 (p. 84, fig. 3), with which it shares the same structure of the parameres, although their shape is clearly different. In particular, the right paramere is much slender and more regularly curved than its left counterpart, while the apical plate of the left paramere is larger than that on the right.
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<subSubSection pageId="2" pageNumber="75" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Etymology.</paragraph>
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This species is dedicated to Peter
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Schüle">Schuele</normalizedToken>
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, German specialist of
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<taxonomicName family="Cicindelidae" lsidName="" pageId="2" pageNumber="75" rank="family">Cicindelidae</taxonomicName>
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, who collected the allotype specimen.
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<subSubSection lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="76" pageId="2" pageNumber="75" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Length 14 mm, width 8.5 mm; body moderately convex, very dark brown, with few short, erected, white setae on the posterior half of the elytra.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="76">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="3" pageNumber="76" start="start">Head</pageBreakToken>
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. Entirely, densely and finely punctate except for a small space between the clypeal teeth, which is finely dotted.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="76">Thorax. Entirely, densely and very finely punctate; exhibiting lateral angle before the middle of the sides; mesosternum strongly but sparsely punctate; metasternum shiny, very finely and sparsely punctate; profemur densely punctuate; mesofemur punctate in the middle, sparsely dotted distally and apically; metafemur sparsely dotted distally, densely punctuate apically.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="76">Elytra. Striae obsolete on the disc, more distinct on the sides, finely punctate; interstriae flat on the disc, more convex apically and laterally, finely punctate.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="76">
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Abdomen. Pygidium convex in male, totally inflexed in ventral position in female; with raising contour at margin, particularly enlarged at apex in male (Figure 2C), very enlarged in female (Figure 2D); parameres of aedeagus asymmetrical (Figures 2
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<normalizedToken originalValue="E–G">E-G</normalizedToken>
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).
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<caption pageId="3" pageNumber="76">
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="76">
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Figure 2.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Gyronotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gyronotus schuelei" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="76" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="schuelei">Gyronotus schuelei</taxonomicName>
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sp. n. A Holotype male, dorsal habitus B Allotype female, dorsal habitus C Male pygidium, ventral side D Female pygidium, ventral side E left F right and G ventral sides of aedeagus. Photo:
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Mickaël">Mickael</normalizedToken>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="François">Francois</normalizedToken>
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.
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</caption>
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<caption pageId="3" pageNumber="76">
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="76">
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Figure 3.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Gyronotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gyronotus perissinottoi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="76" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perissinottoi">Gyronotus perissinottoi</taxonomicName>
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sp. n. in its natural habitat at the Umthamvuna Nature Reserve. Photo: Lynette Clennell.
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<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="76" type="remarks">
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="76">Remarks.</paragraph>
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This appears to be the first record of the presence of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Gyronotus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gyronotus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="76" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Gyronotus</taxonomicName>
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in Swaziland. Its distribution range needs to be investigated further, as it may include adjacent mountainous areas in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa.
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