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<document ID-DOI="10.1080/00222933.2014.909072" ID-GBIF-Dataset="3bad6762-1788-4f94-9cfd-1281b8619c55" ID-ISSN="1464-5262" ID-Zenodo-Dep="4002597" checkinTime="1598467980037" checkinUser="carolina" docAuthor="Frolov, Andrey V." docDate="2014" docId="F91EE008102AFFA6FE70DAFB9C836DBD" docLanguage="en" docName="JNATHIST.49.3-4.129-154.pdf" docOrigin="Journal of Natural History 49 (3)" docStyle="DocumentStyle:210803DF447D5DCB84349979EDD3507F.5:JNatHist.2013-2015.journal_article.2cover" docStyleId="210803DF447D5DCB84349979EDD3507F" docStyleName="JNatHist.2013-2015.journal_article.2cover" docStyleVersion="5" docTitle="Delopleurus krikkeni Frolov 2014, sp. nov." docType="treatment" docVersion="9" lastPageNumber="149" masterDocId="052798701039FFB2FFECDA539E466F14" masterDocTitle="Revision of the genus Delopleurus Boheman (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with description of new species from Africa" masterLastPageNumber="154" masterPageNumber="129" pageNumber="148" updateTime="1682086239887" updateUser="ExternalLinkService" zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0" zenodo-license-figures="CC-BY-4.0">
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<mods:title>Revision of the genus Delopleurus Boheman (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with description of new species from Africa</mods:title>
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<taxonomicName ID-CoL="34H59" authority="Frolov" authorityName="Frolov" authorityYear="2014" box="[412,733,168,192]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Delopleurus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="148" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="krikkeni" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[412,645,168,192]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Delopleurus krikkeni</emphasis>
Frolov
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,
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(
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)
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="19" pageNumber="148" type="diagnosis">
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<emphasis box="[144,252,273,296]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Diagnosis</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
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This species can be easily separated from other
<taxonomicName authorityName="Erichson" authorityYear="1847" box="[735,866,312,336]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Delopleurus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="148" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[735,866,312,336]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Delopleurus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species by sparsely punctate to impunctate disc and base of pronotum. Its pygidium is similar to that of
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<emphasis box="[177,301,376,400]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">D. fossatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[311,402,376,399]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
but differs in having convex basal border distinctly widened medially (
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). From
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<emphasis box="[461,583,408,432]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">D. fossatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[590,678,408,431]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
it also differs in having larger eyes (in dorsal view).
</paragraph>
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<heading box="[144,271,544,567]" fontSize="10" level="3" pageId="19" pageNumber="148" reason="5">
<emphasis box="[144,271,544,567]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Description</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="19.[144,1104,544,1053]" box="[144,1099,583,607]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">
<emphasis box="[144,323,583,607]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">
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, male.
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Body strongly convex, black, glabrous, length
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(
<figureCitation box="[966,1083,583,607]" captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="8.[212,279,738,760]" captionTargetBox="[214,1170,168,697]" captionTargetId="figure@8.[213,1170,168,706]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="Figure 6. Delopleurus krikkeni sp. nov., holotype. (A) habitus; (B) pygidium; (C) aedeagus in lateral view and internal sac; (D) locality map." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4002609" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4002609/files/figure.png" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Figure 6A</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="19.[144,1104,544,1053]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Clypeus quadridentate. Two medial teeth acute, lateral ones right-angled. Clypeal surface coarsely punctate in anterior part and laterally, frons densely punctate (punctures separated by one to two puncture diameters).</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="19.[144,1104,544,1053]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Pronotum about two times wider than long. Anterior and lateral margins distinctly bordered, base feebly bordered laterally. Disc and base of pronotum impunctate, sides relatively densely punctate.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="19.[144,1104,544,1053]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Elytra trapezoidal, as wide as long, shiny. Stria relatively deep, with punctures 1.52 times larger than striae width. Elytral intervals convex, with minute punctation.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="19.[144,1104,544,1053]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Anterior tibiae with three outer teeth, without a small acute tooth between first outer tooth and apical spur. Anterior tibial spur bifurcated apically.</paragraph>
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Pygidium with relatively strongly convex disc separate by deep circular fossa from border. The apical border wider medially and somewhat tapering laterally; apical border somewhat tuberculate in the middle (
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).
</paragraph>
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Parameres in lateral view with small processes (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="19.[144,1103,1109,1165]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">
<emphasis box="[144,319,1109,1133]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">
<typeStatus box="[144,248,1110,1133]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Paratype</typeStatus>
, male.
</emphasis>
Differs from the
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in being slightly larger (length
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) and having only anteromedial part of pronotal disc impunctate.
</paragraph>
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<heading box="[144,346,1221,1245]" fontSize="10" level="3" pageId="19" pageNumber="148" reason="5">
<emphasis box="[144,224,1221,1245]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Female</emphasis>
unknown.
</heading>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="19" pageNumber="148" type="distribution">
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<heading box="[144,276,1325,1349]" fontSize="10" level="3" pageId="19" pageNumber="148" reason="5">
<emphasis box="[144,276,1325,1349]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Distribution</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
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<collectingCounty box="[144,188,1364,1388]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">The</collectingCounty>
locality where the
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was collected is uncertain (Adrian Davis, pers. comm.).
<collectingMunicipality box="[246,270,1397,1420]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">In</collectingMunicipality>
1896,
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might refer to a large area to the northwest of
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and to the south of
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, that was occupied by the
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people.
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it might also be the railway station (
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3°46
<emphasis bold="true" box="[647,653,1460,1484]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">ʹ</emphasis>
S
</geoCoordinate>
,
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39°16
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E
</geoCoordinate>
) on the railroad MombasaNairobi. This latter locality is some
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east-northeast of the locality where the
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was collected,
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(
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph blockId="19.[144,828,1628,1691]" box="[144,265,1628,1652]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">
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<emphasis box="[144,265,1628,1652]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">Etymology</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="19.[144,828,1628,1691]" box="[144,828,1667,1691]" pageId="19" pageNumber="148">The species is named after Jan Krikken (Naturalis, Leiden).</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<emphasis box="[212,368,168,192]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">Type material</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="20.[212,1172,168,328]" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">
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,
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with labels
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[
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]
<date box="[770,934,208,232]" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">30.X to 20.XI.</date>
[18]96,
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<collectorName box="[212,362,240,264]" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">C. S. Bretton</collectorName>
98-12, diff. from the others Krikken 1975 (
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)
</materialsCitation>
.
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<typeStatus box="[994,1097,241,265]" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">Paratype</typeStatus>
, male:
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:
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,
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, unburnt grassland,
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,
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<collectingDate pageId="20" pageNumber="149" value="1995-04-07" valueMax="1995-04-08" valueMin="1995-04-07">78. IV.1995</collectingDate>
</date>
,
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leg. (
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)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="149" type="discussion">
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<emphasis box="[212,310,394,418]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">Remarks</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="20.[212,1172,394,681]" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">
Two new species are described in this work from the Eastern Arc Region,
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<emphasis box="[1046,1066,435,458]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">D</emphasis>
.
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</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[212,302,467,490]" pageId="20" pageNumber="149" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
and
<taxonomicName authority="Frolov, 2014" authorityName="Frolov et Cambefort" authorityYear="2014" box="[363,494,467,490]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Delopleurus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="naviauxi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis box="[363,383,467,490]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">D</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[400,494,467,490]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">naviauxi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[503,594,467,490]" pageId="20" pageNumber="149" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
The former species is known from two males and the latter from two females only. I believe that these specimens are not conspecific because the male specimens lack a characteristic small tooth apicad of the first major outer tooth on the anterior tibae, which is found in the
<taxonomicName authorityName="Frolov et Cambefort" authorityYear="2014" box="[866,998,562,586]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Delopleurus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="naviauxi">
<emphasis box="[866,886,563,586]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">D</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[904,998,562,585]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">naviauxi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<typeStatus box="[1008,1110,561,585]" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">holotype</typeStatus>
. Sexdependent modifications of the legs are common in the
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" box="[835,983,593,617]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="153" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Scarabaeinae">Scarabaeinae</taxonomicName>
but found in the males only. I think that this additional tibial tooth is sex-independent and should be present in the males of
<taxonomicName authority="Frolov, 2014" authorityName="Frolov et Cambefort" authorityYear="2014" box="[480,610,658,681]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Delopleurus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="149" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="naviauxi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis box="[480,500,658,681]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">D</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[516,610,658,681]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="149">naviauxi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[618,709,658,681]" pageId="20" pageNumber="149" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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</subSubSection>
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