Alloblackburneus ibanezbernali, Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon, 2011

Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D., 2011, Systematic revision of the American taxa belonging to the genera Alloblackburneus Bordat, 2009, and Blackburneus Schmidt, 1913, with description of seven new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Insecta Mundi 2011 (204), pp. 1-52 : 10-11

Alloblackburneus ibanezbernali new species

( Fig. 36-40 )

Type locality. Carr. to Copala, Copala env., m 1800, 19 o 60’N- 103 o 74’W, Jalisco, Mexico.

Type repository. Dellacasa collection. Genoa.

Description. Length 3.5-4.0 mm, oblong, convex, strongly shiny, glabrous. Dark chestnut brown; clypeal margin and anterior angles of pronotum reddish-brown; sometimes entirely brownish-red; legs reddish; antennal club piceous. Head with epistome feebly convex on disc, evenly, not closely punctured; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, widely round at sides, not bordered, margins glabrous and slightly upturned; genae round, almost glabrous, not protruding from theeyes; frontal suture nearly obsolete; front sparsely finely punctured. Pronotum moderately transverse, strongly convex, very shiny, dually punctured; large coarse punctures, seven to eighttimes larger than small ones, moderatelydense on sides but not reaching lateral margins; small punctures more or less regularly scattered throughout, somewhat denser and coarser on sides, extremely fine and sparser on disc; lateral margins moderately arcuate, rather thinly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles obtuselyround; base almost regularly arcuate, distinctly bordered. Scutellum feebly convex, shiny, finely and rather sparsely punctured basally. Elytra rather shortly oval, strongly convex, very finely striate; striae superficially punctured, faintly crenulate; interstriae flat, very finely sparsely punctured. Hind tibiae superior apical spur somewhat shorter than first tarsal segment; latter shorter than following three segments combined. Male: metasternal plate somewhat more broadly and deeply excavate at middle; aedeagus Fig. 39-40 . Female: metasternal plate somewhat more narrowly and superficially excavate at middle.

Type material. MEXICO, Colima: Sierra de Manantlán, Municipio Minatitlán, Taperetta , m 2300, 14.VII.1989, leg. S. Espaica (pastizal) (1 ex., paratype, DCGI) ; Durango: Minillas, Res. Biosf “La Michilia”, 1-8.VII.1994, leg. S. Anduaga (pastizal, bajo excremento fresco de vaca) (1 ex., paratype, DCGI) ; idem, 9- 14.VIII.1989, leg. S. Anduaga (pastizal, excrementofrescode vaca) (1 ex., paratype, DCGI) ; idem, 23 o 25’29"N- 104 o 09’08"W, m 2300, IX.2003, leg. C. Huerta & S. Anduaga (1 ex., paratype, DCGI) ; Jalisco: carr. to Copala, Copala env., 19 o 60’N- 103 o 74’W, m 1800, 28.VII.2003, leg. M. Dellacasa & I. Martínez (holotype male and allotype female, DCGI) ; Sierra de Manantlán, Estacion Cientifica “Las Soyas”, m 1900, 20.VII.1989, leg. E. Garcia (1 ex., paratype, DCGI) ; México: Real de Arriba, Temescaltepec [= Temascaltepec], 14.VII.1933, leg. H. E. Hinton & R. L. Usinger (1 ex., paratype, CNCI) ; Michoacán: Condembaro env., 19 o 18’14.3”N- 102 o 17’36.9”W, m 2700, 27.VII.2003, leg. M. Dellacasa & I. Martínez (1 ex., paratype, DCGI) ; rd. Patzuaro-Uruapán, Planta PEMEX Diablo de Zirahuén , 19 o 29’N- 101 o 48’W, m 2200, 23.VII.2001, leg. M. Dellacasa & I. Martínez (1 ex., paratype, DCGI) ; Uruapán , 28.VII.1980, leg. M. Zunino (3 exx., paratypes, DCGI; 1 ex. paratype, FSCA) ; Zitacuaro , 25.VI.1979, leg. M. Zunino (1 ex., paratype, DCGI) ; Nuevo León: Monterreal env., 25 o 13’35.8"N- 100 o 24’40.2"W, m 2736, 3.VII.2006, leg. M. Dellacasa, C. Fresi & I. Martínez (horse dung) (2 exx., paratypes, DCGI) .

Distribution. Mexico (Colima, Durango, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Nuevo León).

Etymology. Named in honor of Sergio Ibañez-Bernál, dipterologist at the Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

Bionomics. Specimens were collected in Summer or in early Autumn; some of them in horse and cow dung.

Figures

Figures 31-40. Alloblackburneus guadalajarae, new species (Guadalajara, Estado Jalisco, Mexico).31) Epipharynx. 32-33) Habitus (length ideogram and morphological details). 34-35) Aedeagus (dorsal and lateral view). Alloblackburneus ibanezbernali, new species (carr. to Copala, m 1800, Estado Jalisco, Mexico). 36) Epipharynx. 37-38) Habitus (morphological details and length ideogram). 39-40) Aedeagus (dorsal and lateral view).