Ataeniopsis rugopygus ( Cartwright, 1974 )

Freese, Edwin L., Veal, Doug A. & Lago, Paul K., 2020, The Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Iowa: An annotated checklist, Insecta Mundi 2020 (787), pp. 1-83 : 52

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5353792

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scientific name

Ataeniopsis rugopygus ( Cartwright, 1974 )
status

 

Ataeniopsis rugopygus ( Cartwright, 1974)

Cartwright 1974 (as Ataenius rugopygus : “ Iowa – Casey Collection USNM”); Stebnicka 2003

Collection dates: no date of collection given in literature record.

Initially, we wondered if this record might represent Ataeniopsis figurator (Harold, 1874) , which is known from the central and eastern USA ( Cartwright 1974, Fig. 5 View Figures 2–9 ) and recently eastern Nebraska (M.J. Paulsen, pers. comm., December 2018), but has not yet been collected in Iowa. Ataeniopsis rugopygus is primarily a southwestern species (AZ, NM, TX), with isolated records from central Colorado, southwestern Arkansas and Iowa ( Cartwright 1974). In describing this species, Cartwright examined five specimens from Iowa that were present in the Thomas Lincoln Casey collection and designated as paratypes. These specimens, clearly A. rugopygus , are labeled simply “Ia” with no additional data. Since the species has not been encountered again in Iowa, nor in any neighboring states, we are very skeptical of the record.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Aphodiidae

Genus

Ataeniopsis

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