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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.174.2668" ID-GBIF-Dataset="4bf0c20f-f2bd-4473-ae8b-75da30f9292f" ID-PMC="PMC3307351" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-174-7" ID-PubMed="22451781" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2012" ModsDocID="1313-2970-174-7" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 174" ModsDocTitle="The Ochodaeidae of Argentina (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea)" checkinTime="1451249306841" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Paulsen, M. J. & Ocampo, Federico C." docDate="2012" docId="AD0B49F4F743D8E491FE8D3BAB4F139B" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 174: 7-30" docOrigin="ZooKeys 174" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.174.2668" docTitle="Gauchodaeus Paulsen, gen. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="23" masterDocId="FFD2D2245A236B244A673E72FFB87A71" masterDocTitle="The Ochodaeidae of Argentina (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea)" masterLastPageNumber="30" masterPageNumber="7" pageNumber="23" updateTime="1668153319038" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>The Ochodaeidae of Argentina (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea)</mods:title>
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Paulsen, M. J.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Ocampo, Federico C.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>
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<mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title>
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<mods:date>2012</mods:date>
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<mods:detail type="volume">
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<mods:number>174</mods:number>
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<mods:start>7</mods:start>
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<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.174.2668</mods:url>
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<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.174.2668</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-174-7</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152033504" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E0452D7A-435F-4AF6-A7A8-4CC28D1F4B80" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/AD0B49F4F743D8E491FE8D3BAB4F139B" lastPageNumber="23" pageId="16" pageNumber="23">
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="23" type="nomenclature">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="23">
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E0452D7A-435F-4AF6-A7A8-4CC28D1F4B80" authority="Paulsen" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Gauchodaeus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gauchodaeus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Gauchodaeus Paulsen</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="16" pageNumber="23">gen. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="23" type="type species">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="23">Type species.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="23">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Gauchodaeus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gauchodaeus patagonicus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="patagonicus">Gauchodaeus patagonicus</taxonomicName>
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Paulsen & Ocampo, here designated.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="23" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="23">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="23">
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The only known species in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Gauchodaeus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gauchodaeus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Gauchodaeus</taxonomicName>
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is an elongate ochodaeid with no elytral closing mechanism, and therefore can be quickly distinguished from the more globular
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Parochodaeus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Parochodaeus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Parochodaeus</taxonomicName>
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species with dentate elytral apices and a bituberculate propygidium. The genus is most similar to the genus
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Synochodaeus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Synochodaeus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Synochodaeus</taxonomicName>
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of southern Africa but is distinguished by the characters discussed above.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="23" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="23">Description.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName family="Ochodaeidae" lsidName="" pageId="16" pageNumber="23" rank="family">Ochodaeidae</taxonomicName>
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:
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<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="16" pageNumber="23" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Chaetocanthinae">Chaetocanthinae</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="16" pageNumber="23" rank="tribe" tribe="Synochodaeini">Synochodaeini</taxonomicName>
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. Form convex, elongate. Sexual dimorphism lacking. Color testaceous to light reddish brown. Length: 5.7-5.9 mm. Width: 2.5-2.7 mm. Head: Surface densely tuberculate/punctate, setose. Mentum strongly tumid, not longitudinally impressed. Labrum densely punctate/setose. Distal 2 labial palpomeres spherical or irregularly shaped (not cylindrical). Clypeus long (length =
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<normalizedToken originalValue="½">1/2</normalizedToken>
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width), straight anteriorly, not reflexed. Frontoclypeal suture lacking distinct transverse sulcus. Mandibles relatively small, externally rounded, visible beyond labrum in dorsal view. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; 3-antennomere club oval, pubescent; first club antennomere neither strongly hemispherical nor enfolding distal antennomeres. Eyes large, somewhat bulging. Pronotum: Surface densely punctate, punctures moderate in size, with distinct anterior tubercle, setigerous; setae moderately long, testaceous. Margins beaded. Scutellum: Form weakly hastate with apex acute. Elytra: Striae (except sutural) not impressed, obsolete. Surface irregularly punctate; punctures moderate, each with small tubercle anteriorly, setigerous; setae dense, moderately long, testaceous. Legs: Protibia tridentate. Legs simple, unarmed. Mesotibial spur pectinate. Metatibia with large external carina in distal 1/3 long (extending>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="½">1/2</normalizedToken>
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width of tibia) but interrupted at middle. Metatibial spurs simple (possibly worn). Metatrochanter not acutely produced. Abdomen: Stridulatory peg absent. Propygidium short (length <1/5 width), without elytral locking mechanism.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="23" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="23">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="23">The name is formed from gaucho, a local word commonly used to describe residents of the pampas or Patagonian grasslands, in combination with the root Ochodaeus. It is masculine in gender.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="23" type="composition">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="23">Composition.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="23">Only one species is known, herein described.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="23" type="remarks">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="23">Remarks.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="23">
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Nothing is known about the life history of these beetles, other than that they live in a rather inhospitable, arid part of
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Province.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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