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<mods:title>A new species of Chalepides Casey, 1915 (Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini) from the Pantanal of Brazil</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Ratcliffe, Brett C.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Seidel, Matthias</mods:namePart>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Holotype, dorsal view, of Chalepides pantanalensis Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel, sp. nov." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/574481" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Figs 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 2, 3" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 2, 3. Male protarsal large claw of (2) C. pantanalensis Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel, sp. nov. and (3) C. howdenorum Joly &amp; Escalona." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/574482" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">, 2</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 4. Parameres, caudal and lateral views, of Chalepides pantanalensis Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel, sp. nov." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/574483" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">, 4</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 5. Location of type localities of Fazenda 4 Cantos and Fazenda Natureza, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/574484" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">, 5</figureCitation>
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Type material.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Holotype</emphasis>
male labeled &quot;BRAZIL/ Pantanal-Fazenda/ Natureza 4.-8.11.2005/ lgt. Z.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Tüdös”">Tuedoes&quot;</normalizedToken>
and with our red holotype label.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Allotype</emphasis>
female labeled &quot;Brazil, Pantanal/ Fazenda 4 cantos, 7.-10.5.2012/
<geoCoordinate degrees="18" direction="south" minutes="36" orientation="latitude" precision="1" seconds="54.40" value="-18.615112">18°36'54.40&quot;S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="56" direction="west" minutes="15" orientation="longitude" precision="1" seconds="56.97" value="-56.265823">56°15'56.97&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
/ lgt. O. Konvicka&quot; and with our red allotype label. One male and three female
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">paratypes</emphasis>
with same data as holotype and each with our yellow paratype label. Two male
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">paratypes</emphasis>
with same data as allotype and each with our yellow paratype label. Holotype deposited at the Zoological Museum (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">ZMH</emphasis>
), Centrum
<normalizedToken originalValue="für">fuer</normalizedToken>
Naturkunde,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Universität">Universitaet</normalizedToken>
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. Allotype and one male paratype deposited at the University of Nebraska State Museum (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">UNSM</emphasis>
), Lincoln, NE, USA; one male paratype deposited in the Matthias Seidel Collection (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">MSPC</emphasis>
), Hamburg, Germany; and one male and three female paratypes deposited in the
<normalizedToken originalValue="Ondřej">Ondrej</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Konvička">Konvicka</normalizedToken>
Collection,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Zlín">Zlin</normalizedToken>
, Czechia (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">OKPC</emphasis>
).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Figure 1.</emphasis>
Holotype, dorsal view, of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Chalepides pantanalensis</emphasis>
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Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel, sp. nov.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="189" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Chalepides pantanalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
will key to couplet 11 in
<bibRefCitation author="Endroedi, S" journalOrPublisher="Junk Publisher, Dordrecht, The Netherlands" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" refId="B2" refString="Endroedi, S, 1985. The Dynastinae of the World. Dr. W. Junk Publisher, Dordrecht, The Netherlands" title="The Dynastinae of the World. Dr. W." year="1985">
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(1985)
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which ends with
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. comes</emphasis>
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Prell (Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil) where the character states do not match: degree of punctation of pronotum versus frons, pygidial sculpturing, and form of the parameres. In
<bibRefCitation author="Joly, LJ" journalOrPublisher="Entomotropica" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" pagination="37 - 90" refId="B3" refString="Joly, LJ, Escalona, HE, 2002. Revision del genero Chalepides Casey, 1915 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini). Entomotropica 17: 37 - 90" title="Revision del genero Chalepides Casey, 1915 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini)." volume="17" year="2002">Joly and Escalona (2002)</bibRefCitation>
, it will key to couplet 8 for
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. osunai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Joly &amp; Escalona (Venezuela) and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. howdenorum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Joly &amp; Escalona (northern Bolivia), the only
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species with a bulbous and rounded apex of the parameres (as in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. pantanalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel" authorityYear="2021" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Chalepides" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chalepides pantanalensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pantanalensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Chalepides pantanalensis</emphasis>
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has some character states seen in both of these species. The parameres are nearly identical to those of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. howdenorum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but the male of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. pantanalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has a tooth on the venter of protarsomere 5 (absent in
<taxonomicName genus="C." lsidName="C. howdenorum" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" rank="species" species="howdenorum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. howdenorum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 2, 3" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 2, 3. Male protarsal large claw of (2) C. pantanalensis Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel, sp. nov. and (3) C. howdenorum Joly &amp; Escalona." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/574482" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">3</figureCitation>
) and the larger protarsal claw is short and thick in
<taxonomicName genus="C." lsidName="C. pantanalensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" rank="species" species="pantanalensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. pantanalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(narrowly elongate in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. howdenorum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) (compare Figs
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 2, 3" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 2, 3. Male protarsal large claw of (2) C. pantanalensis Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel, sp. nov. and (3) C. howdenorum Joly &amp; Escalona." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/574482" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">2</figureCitation>
and
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 2, 3" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 2, 3. Male protarsal large claw of (2) C. pantanalensis Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel, sp. nov. and (3) C. howdenorum Joly &amp; Escalona." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/574482" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">3</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Figures 2, 3.</emphasis>
Male protarsal large claw of
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">(2)</emphasis>
<taxonomicName genus="C." lsidName="C. pantanalensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" rank="species" species="pantanalensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. pantanalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel, sp. nov. and
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">(3)</emphasis>
<taxonomicName genus="C." lsidName="C. howdenorum" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" rank="species" species="howdenorum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. howdenorum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Joly &amp; Escalona.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">
The male of
<taxonomicName genus="C." lsidName="C. pantanalensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" rank="species" species="pantanalensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. pantanalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
shares with
<taxonomicName genus="C." lsidName="C. osunai" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" rank="species" species="osunai">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. osunai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
a tooth on the venter of protarsomere 5 and a larger short, thick protarsal claw, but
<taxonomicName genus="C." lsidName="C. pantanalensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" rank="species" species="pantanalensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. pantanalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has a greenish sheen (absent in
<taxonomicName genus="C." lsidName="C. osunai" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" rank="species" species="osunai">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. osunai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), a densely punctate clypeus (sparsely punctate in
<taxonomicName genus="C." lsidName="C. osunai" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" rank="species" species="osunai">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. osunai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and shorter, suboval parameres (elongate in
<taxonomicName genus="C." lsidName="C. osunai" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" rank="species" species="osunai">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. osunai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="189" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Description of holotype</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">
(Fig.
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). Male. Length 16.7 mm; width 6.9 mm. Color black with faint olive-green sheen.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Head</emphasis>
: Frons with small, moderately dense, ocellate punctures. Clypeus with small, dense, ocellate punctures; apex broadly, shallowly emarginate, slightly reflexed. Frontal suture arcuate, complete. Interocular width equals 6.0 transverse eye diameters.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Pronotum</emphasis>
: Surface with small, sparse, ocellate punctures.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Elytra</emphasis>
: Surface punctate-striate; punctures small, ocellate, separated by about 1 puncture diameter in each row, moderately dense in intervals. Sutural stria a row of small punctures.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Pygidium</emphasis>
: Prepygidium elongated, coarsely and longitudinally strigose, with long, dense, tawny setae. Pygidium short; surface shiny with large, dense, setigerous punctures, punctures becoming small in lateral angles; setae short, moderately dense, tawny. Surface convex in lateral view.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Legs</emphasis>
: Protibia tridentate, teeth subequally spaced. Protarsus enlarged; tarsomere 4 and base of tarsomere 5 densely strigulose ventrally; tarsomere 5 longitudinally carinulate on inner margin and with distinctive tooth beneath (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 2, 3" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 2, 3. Male protarsal large claw of (2) C. pantanalensis Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel, sp. nov. and (3) C. howdenorum Joly &amp; Escalona." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/574482" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">2</figureCitation>
); median claw stout, short, strongly bent (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 2, 3" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 2, 3. Male protarsal large claw of (2) C. pantanalensis Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel, sp. nov. and (3) C. howdenorum Joly &amp; Escalona." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/574482" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">2</figureCitation>
). Metatarsus shorter than metatibia.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Venter</emphasis>
: Prosternal process long, thick, columnar, apex flattened with raised, round
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on all but slender, setose posterior margin.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Parameres</emphasis>
: Each side of shaft at about midpoint with small tooth and then shaft expanded to rounded apex (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 4. Parameres, caudal and lateral views, of Chalepides pantanalensis Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel, sp. nov." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/574483" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">4</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Figure 4.</emphasis>
Parameres, caudal and lateral views, of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel" authorityYear="2021" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Chalepides" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chalepides pantanalensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pantanalensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Chalepides pantanalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Ratcliffe &amp; Seidel, sp. nov.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Allotype.</emphasis>
Female. Length 16.7 mm; width 6.9 mm. As holotype except in the following respects:
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Legs</emphasis>
: Protarsi simple, not enlarged.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="189" type="variation">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Variation.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Male (3 paratypes). Length 15.8-16.5 mm; width 6.8-7.3 mm. The paratypes do not differ from the holotype except in size, and the small tooth on the venter of tarsomere 5 is nearly obsolete in one specimen. Female (3 paratypes). Length 15.5-16.5 mm; width 7.0-7.7 mm. The paratypes do not differ from the allotype.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="189" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">The specific epithet is an adjective and refers to the habitat type, the Pantanal, in which this species occurs.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="189" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Chalepides pantanalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is known only from
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Pantanal Region (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 5. Location of type localities of Fazenda 4 Cantos and Fazenda Natureza, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/574484" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">5</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Figure 5.</emphasis>
Location of type localities of Fazenda 4 Cantos and Fazenda Natureza, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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</caption>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="189" type="locality records">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Locality records.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">8 specimens examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Brazil (8)</emphasis>
• MATO GROSSO DO SUL (8): Fazenda 4 Cantos, Fazenda Natureza (140 km NW Campo Grande).
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="189" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Temporal distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">May (3), November (5).</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="189" type="natural history">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Natural history.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="189">
Nothing is known of the life history of
<taxonomicName genus="C." lsidName="C. pantanalensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="189" rank="species" species="pantanalensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">C. pantanalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
other than the specimens were presumably collected at lights as are other species of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="189">Chalepides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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