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,
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/
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/
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. Gutierrez Lgt”; b) rectangular, framed, white paper: “
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/
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det. 2021”.
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stored in a small glycerol vial, pinned under the specimen.
<collectorName id="26834DA4791C2931779D473FFB15D066" box="[1212,1241,1067,1093]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">To</collectorName>
ensure the perenniality of this material, the
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national
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naturelle,
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,
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/ Roxas,
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<collectionCode id="ED67B0B7791C2931773C4785FBF1D088" box="[1053,1085,1169,1195]" country="Norway" name="Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">VI</collectionCode>
. 2012
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/ Flight interception trap /
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.Gutierrez Lgt”.
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(
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) labeled: a) “
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,
<collectingRegion id="49B2E690791C293170C147A7FBF1D0EE" box="[992,1085,1203,1229]" country="Philippines" name="Palawan" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Palawan</collectingRegion>
/ Roxas,
<date id="FFC80EB2791C2931778147A7FACBD0EE" box="[1184,1287,1203,1229]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2" value="2013-12">XII. 2013</date>
/ Flight interception trap /
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. Gutierrez Lgt”. Genitalia stored in a small glycerol vial, pinned under the specimens.
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<emphasis id="B902F460791C293173E147EBFEF0D13A" bold="true" box="[192,316,1279,1305]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Body medium-sized, robust, convex, densely pubescent, unicolored, uniformly chestnut-brown; surface nitid; the head quadrituberculate with a distinct acute tubercle on each side of the clypeal carina, and two other flattened tubercles, barely perceptible, on the vertex. The stridulatory peg is present.
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<emphasis id="B902F460791C293173E14679FE9ED1A4" bold="true" box="[192,338,1389,1415]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Description.</emphasis>
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female (
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Fig. 1
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4
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).
<emphasis id="B902F460791C293171B44679FD23D1A4" bold="true" box="[661,751,1389,1415]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Length:</emphasis>
8.4 mm (from the apex of the mandibles to the apical part of the tergite VIII).
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4.3 mm (greater width of the pronotum).
<emphasis id="B902F460791C293170E3469BFBCBD18A" bold="true" box="[962,1031,1423,1449]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Head:</emphasis>
Strongly transverse, sub-hexagonal, flattened dorso-ventrally. Surface shiny, long pubescent, the setae obliquely directed backwards; surface microreticulate covered with medium setiferous granules separated by approximately twice their diameter. Labrum transverse, dorsally convex, strongly emarginate and transversely split into two superimposed laminae in the middle front; dorsal surface with large setose punctures, the anterior edge pubescent. Eyes very large, globose, strongly produced laterad, lacking ventral projection of canthus. Anterior clypeal membrane transverse, trapezoidal, in thin hyaline tegumentary plate overhanging the labrum. Clypeus subtrapezoidal, slightly obliquely declivous forwards, the front margin distinctly beaded and pubescent on edge; clypeus separated from frons by a weakly curved carina ended by a distinct acute tubercle on both sides (
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); the area behind the carina shallowly concave. Vertex bituberculate, the tubercles flattened, obsolete (
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). Mandibles subequal, falciform, broadly scooped dorsally. Mentum subquadrangular, slightly transverse, the base sublinear, the sides slightly convex, weakly depressed; the disc densely pubescent; a median longitudinal groove extending nearly from the base to the insertion of the palps forward. Labium with 3-segmented palpi: basal palpomere very reduced, slightly curved; median palpomere strongly developed, securiform, 34× longer than the basal palpomere; distal palpomere elongate, fusiform, inserted at the inferodistal third of the median palpomere. Maxillae with 4-segmented palpi; lacinia and galea well sclerotized, distinctly separated. Galea well developed, subtriangular, the inner margin with ten long thick curved setae and three thinner apical setae, the latero-external edge glabrous. Galea subdivided into galea (distal part) and subgalea (proximal part) (respectively “proxagalea” and “distagalea” according to
<bibRefCitation id="EFE75583791A29377656420DFE53D576" author="Nel A &amp; Scholtz CH" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" refId="ref6080" refString="Nel A, Scholtz CH. 1990. Comparative morphology of the mouthparts of adult Scarabaeoidea. Entomology Memoir, Department of Agricultural Development, Republic of South Africa, Pretoria 80: 84 p." type="book" year="1990">Nel and Scholtz (1990))</bibRefCitation>
. Lacinia in the shape of a thin longitudinal plate, apically acuminate as an elongated curved spur, its inner edge densely pubescent. Antenna 10-segmented, fawn-colored, the scape densely pubescent, the outer antennomere club segment distinctly brightened and pubescent at the upper edge.
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293777BD426BFAD0D5BA" bold="true" box="[1180,1308,383,409]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Pronotum:</emphasis>
Transverse, convex, the lateral edges and base fringed with long setae, the outline entirely margined, the marge distinctly widening in the middle of the base forming a transverse bulge in a portion extending on both sides up to the level of the humeral callus. Anterior margin slightly convex behind the head, with a thin hyaline membrane in front. Front angles obtuse, the posterior ones regularly rounded. A short, barely impressed, median longitudinal furrow at base. Pronotal surface with double punctation consisting of long setiferous medium foveolate punctures mixed with small setose punctures, the setae obliquely directed anteriorly; surface shiny with two darkened foveae in the middle of each side. Scutellum sublinguiform, weakly depressed in front, the surface slightly concave with few scattered setose medium punctures.
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293771A94199FD1BD684" bold="true" box="[648,727,653,679]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Elytra:</emphasis>
Transverse, densely pubescent, their color similar to that of the pronotum. Surface with well impressed striae, consisting of sunken large points separated by about 1× their diameter; each puncture, rather deep, round, with a very short non-erect bristle along the internal anterior edge; interstriae weakly convex, with strong and tight punctation consisting of small setose granules, the setae oriented backward; juxta-sutural interstriae darkened, noticeably depressed. Humeral callus well developed.
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293776064007FA6ED70E" bold="true" box="[1319,1442,787,813]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Abdomen:</emphasis>
Strongly convex with six visible ventrites (IIIVIII). The ventrites convex, shiny, with a transverse row of large darkened granules along their anterior edge; the granules setose, quite close in the median part of the ventrites (separated by ± 2× their diameter), more spaced on the sides (separated by ± 34× their diameter). Tergite VIII (pygidium) convex, the surface with large setose punctures not uniformly distributed, the setae denser in the apical part. Metasternal process subplanar with a thin, barely visible median darkened groove in the anterior half; mesocoxae widely separated. Stridulatory apparatus (sternite VI) present.
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293770D140CAFBE0D7DB" bold="true" box="[1008,1068,990,1016]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Legs:</emphasis>
Protibia tridentate externally, the basal tooth spinose, acute, very reduced. Femurs without accessory teeth, their surface with two parallel rows of setose punctures. First metatarsomere of equal length than tarsomeres 25 combined.
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293777A64735FB37D018" bold="true" box="[1159,1275,1057,1083]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Genitalia:</emphasis>
Female terminalia rather weakly chitinized. Gonopode IX dimeric (one subcoxite and one coxite on each side), the terminal stylus IX lacking (
<figureCitation id="134D34F7791A293772A74771FE04D05C" box="[390,456,1125,1151]" captionStart="Figures 45" captionStartId="6.[192,279,1833,1859]" captionTargetBox="[192,1440,1228,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-177@6.[192,1440,1228,1803]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Figures 45. Ochodaeidae, female terminalia. 4) Nothochodaeus minotaurus Huchet, new species (holotype), right part.5) Ochodaeus miliaris Klug, 1832, with stylus IX present (after Dupuis, 2005) (Cx: coxite; Ep: epipleurite; Sc: subcoxite; Te: tergite). (Fig. 5: photo courtesy of F. Dupuis; scale = 100 µm)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12808316" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/12808316/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
). Subcoxite IX barely sclerotized, roughly triangular, with two long setae at the apical end of the ventral edge; coxite IX elongated, digitiform, bearing about twenty long setae.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BC92872791B293673E1445EFCDBD3A5" blockId="4.[192,1440,1866,1927]" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">
<emphasis id="B902F460791B293673E1445EFE9CD347" bold="true" box="[192,336,1866,1892]" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Figures 12.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791B29367277445EFD2DD347" authority="Huchet" authorityName="Huchet" authorityYear="2021" box="[342,737,1866,1892]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minotaurus" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B902F460791B29367277445EFD49D347" box="[342,645,1866,1892]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Nothochodaeus minotaurus</emphasis>
Huchet
</taxonomicName>
,
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, female holotype.
<emphasis id="B902F460791B2936771E445EFB9BD347" bold="true" box="[1087,1111,1866,1892]" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">1)</emphasis>
habitus, dorsal view.
<emphasis id="B902F460791B29367669445EFAACD347" bold="true" box="[1352,1376,1866,1892]" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">2)</emphasis>
habitus, latero-dorsal view (Photos J.-B. Huchet, MNHN).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8BC92872791A293773E147A4FDE6D0E8" blockId="5.[192,554,1200,1227]" box="[192,554,1200,1227]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293773E147A4FE60D0E8" bold="true" box="[192,428,1200,1227]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Sexual dimorphism.</emphasis>
Unknown.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C36C7BF9791A293773E147CFFBF8D0D6" box="[192,1076,1242,1269]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BC92872791A293773E147CFFBF8D0D6" blockId="5.[192,1076,1242,1269]" box="[192,1076,1242,1269]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293773E147CFFE88D0D6" bold="true" box="[192,324,1243,1269]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Etymology.</emphasis>
In reference to the
<emphasis id="B902F460791A2937713C47CFFD4AD0D7" box="[541,646,1243,1268]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Minotaur</emphasis>
, a twin-horned mythological creature.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C36C7BF9791A293773E14610FCFFD13D" box="[192,819,1284,1310]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BC92872791A293773E14610FCFFD13D" blockId="5.[192,819,1284,1310]" box="[192,819,1284,1310]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293773E14610FE97D13D" bold="true" box="[192,347,1284,1310]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Distribution.</emphasis>
North
<collectingRegion id="49B2E690791A2937728A4610FDC4D13D" box="[427,520,1284,1310]" country="Philippines" name="Palawan" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Palawan</collectingRegion>
(El Nido, Roxas) (
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C36C7BF9791A293573E1463AFAC7D574" lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="6" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BC92872791A293773E1463AFEE3D25B" blockId="5.[191,1442,1326,1927]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293773E1463AFEE3D16B" bold="true" box="[192,303,1326,1352]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Remarks.</emphasis>
From the presence of two distinct tubercles on the vertex and the outer 3rd protibial tooth located near the base,
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A293772044645FDD3D149" authority="Huchet" authorityName="Huchet" authorityYear="2021" box="[293,543,1360,1386]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minotaurus" status="new species">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293772044645FE08D149" box="[293,452,1361,1386]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">N. minotaurus</emphasis>
Huchet
</taxonomicName>
,
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appears to be morphologically closest to
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A293777534644FDE3D1AF" authority="Ochi, Kon and Masumoto, 2013" authorityName="Ochi, Kon and Masumoto" authorityYear="2013" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maruyamai">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293777534644FA6CD149" box="[1138,1440,1360,1386]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Nothochodaeus maruyamai</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFE75583791A293773E14666FDE3D1AF" author="Ochi T &amp; Kon M &amp; Masumoto K." box="[192,559,1394,1420]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" pagination="309 - 326" refId="ref6191" refString="Ochi T, Kon M, Masumoto K. 2013. Six new taxa of the genus Nothochodaeus Nikolajev from the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Ochodaeidae). Japanese Journal of systematic entomology 19 (2): 309 - 326." type="journal article" year="2013">Ochi, Kon and Masumoto, 2013</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from the Malay Peninsula but also to
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293770CA4666FB9AD1AF" box="[1003,1110,1394,1420]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A293770CA4666FB9ED1AF" baseAuthorityName="Wiedemann" baseAuthorityYear="1823" box="[1003,1106,1394,1420]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hirtus">N. hirtus</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
from Java. It differs from
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A293776A74666FE8CD18E" authorityName="Ochi, Kon and Masumoto" authorityYear="2013" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maruyamai">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293776A74666FE8CD18E" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">N. maruyamai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the presence of two acute tubercles on each side of a distinctly raised clypeal carina (the clypeal carina is very thin, slightly raised, and weakly tuberculate on either side in
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A2937770746A2FB05D1EC" authorityName="Ochi, Kon and Masumoto" authorityYear="2013" box="[1062,1225,1462,1487]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maruyamai">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A2937770746A2FB05D1EC" box="[1062,1225,1462,1487]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">N. maruyamai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Additionally, the pronotal punctation of
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A293772E746CCFD0ED1D2" authority="Huchet" authorityName="Huchet" authorityYear="2021" box="[454,706,1495,1521]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minotaurus" status="new species">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293772E746CCFDAAD1D2" box="[454,614,1496,1521]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">N. minotaurus</emphasis>
Huchet
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A231491B791A293771EC46C3FC98D1D2" box="[717,852,1495,1521]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" rank="species">new species</taxonomicNameLabel>
, is denser than that of
<emphasis id="B902F460791A2937777346CCFB37D1D2" box="[1106,1275,1496,1521]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A2937777346CCFB3BD1D2" authorityName="Ochi, Kon and Masumoto" authorityYear="2013" box="[1106,1271,1496,1521]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maruyamai">N. maruyamai</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
and the setose punctures distinctly larger.
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A293772DB46EDFD30D230" authority="Huchet" authorityName="Huchet" authorityYear="2021" box="[506,764,1529,1555]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minotaurus" status="new species">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293772DB46EDFD51D231" box="[506,669,1529,1554]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">N. minotaurus</emphasis>
Huchet
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A231491B791A2937702B46EDFC5DD230" box="[778,913,1529,1555]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" rank="species">new species</taxonomicNameLabel>
is distinguished from
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A293777B646EDFB30D230" baseAuthorityName="Wiedemann" baseAuthorityYear="1823" box="[1175,1276,1529,1555]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hirtus">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293777B646EDFB30D230" box="[1175,1276,1529,1555]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">N. hirtus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by its smaller size, the conformation of the clypeal carina (very high and without tubercles in
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A29377765450FFB6AD217" baseAuthorityName="Wiedemann" baseAuthorityYear="1823" box="[1092,1190,1562,1588]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hirtus">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A29377765450FFB6AD217" box="[1092,1190,1562,1588]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">N. hirtus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Finally, the pronotal punctation of
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A2937727D4529FE72D275" baseAuthorityName="Wiedemann" baseAuthorityYear="1823" box="[348,446,1596,1622]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hirtus">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A2937727D4529FE72D275" box="[348,446,1596,1622]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">N. hirtus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is very distinct (very dense, consisting of small, tightly packed but non-contiguous setose granules).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BC92872791A293772214594FD6ED302" blockId="5.[191,1442,1326,1927]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">
In addition to similar coloration patterns, these three species share the presence of a pair of weakly raised tubercles on the vertex. Interestingly, other species belonging to the geographically distant genus
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A2937762B45B5FEA2D2FD" authority="Nikolajev, 1995" authorityName="Nikolajev" authorityYear="1995" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Parochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A2937762B45B5FA6ED298" box="[1290,1442,1697,1723]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Parochodaeus</emphasis>
Nikolajev, 1995
</taxonomicName>
present similar tubercles, as notably the neotropical species
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A2937770145D0FA52D2FE" authority="(Erichson, 1847)" baseAuthorityName="Erichson" baseAuthorityYear="1847" box="[1056,1438,1731,1757]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Parochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bituberculatus">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A2937770145D0FB1BD2FE" box="[1056,1239,1731,1757]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">P. bituberculatus</emphasis>
(Erichson, 1847)
</taxonomicName>
, inhabiting
<collectingCountry id="F36168E2791A2937721D45F2FEBCD323" box="[316,368,1766,1792]" name="Peru" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Peru</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="F36168E2791A2937728945F1FE2AD2DC" box="[424,486,1765,1791]" name="Chile" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Chile</collectingCountry>
, but also
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A2937716E45F2FC17D2DC" authority="Paulsen and Ocampo, 2012" authorityName="Paulsen and Ocampo" authorityYear="2012" box="[591,987,1765,1791]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Parochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pudu">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A2937716E45F2FD6DD2DC" box="[591,673,1765,1791]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">P.pudu</emphasis>
Paulsen and Ocampo, 2012
</taxonomicName>
, from
<collectingCountry id="F36168E2791A2937770445F1FB5AD2DC" box="[1061,1174,1765,1791]" name="Argentina" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Argentina</collectingCountry>
(in this last species, the tubercles are nevertheless very prominent).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BC92872791A29357221443CFAC7D574" blockId="5.[191,1442,1326,1927]" lastBlockId="7.[191,1440,214,343]" lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="6" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">
<bibRefCitation id="EFE75583791A29377221443CFE6AD360" author="Dupuis F." box="[256,422,1832,1859]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" pagination="733 - 823" refId="ref5668" refString="Dupuis F. 2005. L'abdomen et les genitalia des femelles de coleopteres Scarabaeoidea (Insecta, Coleoptera). Zoosystema 27 (4): 733 - 823." type="journal article" year="2005">Dupuis (2005)</bibRefCitation>
, based on a detailed study of
<specimenCount id="9D70E3FB791A293771DF443CFC47D361" box="[766,907,1832,1858]" count="3" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" type="female">three female</specimenCount>
representatives of the family (
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A293777C9443CFE93D347" authority="Marseul, 1913" authorityName="Marseul" authorityYear="1913" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Ochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gigas">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293777C9443CFA6CD361" box="[1256,1440,1832,1858]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Ochodaeus gigas</emphasis>
Marseul, 1913
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A29377248445FFD97D347" authority="Klug, 1832" authorityName="Klug" authorityYear="1832" box="[361,603,1866,1893]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Ochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="miliaris">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A29377248445FFE10D347" box="[361,476,1866,1893]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">O. miliaris</emphasis>
Klug, 1832
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A293771B1445FFBCFD346" authority="Motschulsky, 1859" authorityName="Motschulsky" authorityYear="1859" box="[656,1027,1866,1893]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Ochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pocadioides">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293771B1445FFCE3D347" box="[656,815,1866,1893]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">O. pocadioides</emphasis>
Motschulsky, 1859
</taxonomicName>
(this last species now included in the genus
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791A293772274478FD82D3A4" authority="Nikolajev, 1995" authorityName="Nikolajev" authorityYear="1995" box="[262,590,1900,1927]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Parochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B902F460791A293772274478FE52D3A5" box="[262,414,1900,1926]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Parochodaeus</emphasis>
Nikolajev, 1995
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(Huchet 2016)) evidenced the presence of a trimeric gonopod IX (subcoxite/ coxite/stylus) within these taxa. A similar conformation has recently been demonstrated in the South African species
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F179192934723943ECFDB0D532" authority="Benderitter, 1913" authorityName="Benderitter" authorityYear="1913" box="[280,636,247,274]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Ochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="congoensis">
<emphasis id="B902F46079192934723943ECFE61D532" box="[280,429,248,274]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="5">O. congoensis</emphasis>
Benderitter, 1913
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F17919293471A843ECFC59D532" authority="Kolbe, 1907" authorityName="Kolbe" authorityYear="1907" box="[649,917,247,274]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Ochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="adsequa">
<emphasis id="B902F4607919293471A843ECFCCAD532" box="[649,774,247,274]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="5">O. adsequa</emphasis>
Kolbe, 1907
</taxonomicName>
as well as in the genus
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F179192934778843E3FF3AD510" authority="Huchet, 2020" authorityName="Huchet" authorityYear="2020" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Afrochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B902F46079192934778843E3FAF2D532" box="[1193,1342,247,273]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="5">Afrochodaeus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFE7558379192934766643E3FF3AD510" author="Huchet JB" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" pagination="361 - 373" refId="ref5999" refString="Huchet JB. 2020. Two new genera of Ochodaeinae for Africa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France 56 (5): 361 - 373." type="journal article" year="2020">Huchet, 2020</bibRefCitation>
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(
<bibRefCitation id="EFE75583791929347222420DFE54D510" author="Huchet JB" box="[259,408,281,307]" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" pagination="361 - 373" refId="ref5999" refString="Huchet JB. 2020. Two new genera of Ochodaeinae for Africa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France 56 (5): 361 - 373." type="journal article" year="2020">Huchet 2020</bibRefCitation>
). Although belonging to three distinct genera, all these species belong to the tribe
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F179192934763D420DFEACD577" authority="Streubel, 1846" authorityName="Streubel" authorityYear="1846" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Ochodaeini">
Ochodaeini
<bibRefCitation id="EFE7558379192934739E422EFEACD577" author="Streubel AV" box="[191,352,314,340]" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" pagination="1 - 972" refId="ref6326" refString="Streubel AV. 1846. Das Thierreich geordnet nach seiner Organisation: als Grundlage der Naturgeschichte der Thiere und als Einleitung in die vergleichende Anatomie. G. Reimer, Berlin 1: 1 - 972." type="journal article" year="1846">Streubel, 1846</bibRefCitation>
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. Interestingly, unlike representatives of the
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F179192934701E422EFC09D577" authorityName="Streubel" authorityYear="1846" box="[831,965,314,340]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Ochodaeini">Ochodaeini</taxonomicName>
, the gonopod IX of
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F1791929347780422EFEF8D554" authority="Nikolajev, 2015" authorityName="Nikolajev" authorityYear="2015" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Nothochodaeini">
Nothochodaeini
<bibRefCitation id="EFE7558379192934767C422EFEF8D554" author="Nikolajev GV" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" pagination="21 - 26" refId="ref6154" refString="Nikolajev GV. 2015. On the systematic position of the new scarab beetles genus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea, Ochodaeidae) from the Mesozoic of China. Euroasian Entomological Journal 14: 21 - 26." type="journal article" year="2015">Nikolajev, 2015</bibRefCitation>
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(ie.
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F17919293472424248FD71D554" authority="Nikolajev, 2005" authorityName="Nikolajev" authorityYear="2005" box="[355,701,348,375]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Nothochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B902F4607919293472424248FDC7D555" box="[355,523,348,374]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="5">Nothochodaeus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFE755837919293471304248FD71D554" author="Nikolajev GV" box="[529,701,348,375]" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" pagination="219 - 220" refId="ref6116" refString="Nikolajev GV. 2005. Notochodaeus [sic] gen. nov., a new Ochodaeinae genus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from Asia. Euroasian Entomological Journal 4 (3): 219 - 220." type="journal article" year="2005">Nikolajev, 2005</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F17919293471D24248FBF1D555" authority="Huchet, 2017" authorityName="Huchet" authorityYear="2017" box="[755,1085,348,374]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" genus="Ceratochodaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B902F4607919293471D24248FC6DD555" box="[755,929,348,374]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="5">Ceratochodaeus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFE755837919293470864248FBF1D555" author="Huchet JB" box="[935,1085,348,374]" pageId="6" pageNumber="5" pagination="93 - 101" refId="ref5893" refString="Huchet JB. 2017. Un nouveau sous-genre et une nouvelle espece d'Ochodaeidae des Philippines (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea). Coleopteres 23 (9): 93 - 101." type="journal article" year="2017">Huchet, 2017</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
) is dimeric and lacks a terminal stylus (
<figureCitation id="134D34F779192934722F426AFE9CD5BB" box="[270,336,382,408]" captionStart="Figures 45" captionStartId="6.[192,279,1833,1859]" captionTargetBox="[192,1440,1228,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-177@6.[192,1440,1228,1803]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Figures 45. Ochodaeidae, female terminalia. 4) Nothochodaeus minotaurus Huchet, new species (holotype), right part.5) Ochodaeus miliaris Klug, 1832, with stylus IX present (after Dupuis, 2005) (Cx: coxite; Ep: epipleurite; Sc: subcoxite; Te: tergite). (Fig. 5: photo courtesy of F. Dupuis; scale = 100 µm)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12808316" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/12808316/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="5">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
). An exhaustive study of the female terminalia at suprageneric level would obviously be relevant to reach a definitive conclusion. Although rarely described and used, the morphology of female genitalia is revealed to be of great value within the systematics of the
<taxonomicName id="4C7653F17918293571C343ECFCBAD531" authorityName="Streubel" authorityYear="1846" box="[738,886,248,274]" class="Insecta" family="Ochodaeidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Ochodaeidae</taxonomicName>
as evidenced by
<bibRefCitation id="EFE7558379182935771243ECFB16D531" author="Ortuno VM" box="[1075,1242,248,274]" pageId="7" pageNumber="6" pagination="377 - 381" refId="ref6240" refString="Ortuno VM. 2007. Un nuevo dato de Ochodaeus inermis Reitter, 1893 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae): estado actual de su conocimiento. Boletin Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 41: 377 - 381." type="journal article" year="2007">Ortuño (2007)</bibRefCitation>
. Along with male genitalia, we are convinced that female terminalia bear relevant features that may be useful both in the specific identification of the taxa and to clarify the phylogenetic relationships between the different genera.
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