Neotrichaphodioides woytkowskii, Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Skelley, 2010

Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Skelley, Paul E., 2010, Neotrichaphodioides, new genus of Neotropical Aphodiini, with description of a new species from Peru (Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Insecta Mundi 2010 (133), pp. 1-12 : 6-7

Neotrichaphodioides woytkowskii , new species

( Fig. 25-29 )

Type locality. San Idelfonso Hills, Dept. Amazonas, Peru.

Type repository. Snow Entomological Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Description. Length 7.0-8.0 mm; oblong elongate, moderately convex, shiny. Piceous brown; clypeal margins and pronotal sides paler, legs dark brown, antennal club piceous. Head with epistome almost flat, evenly finely sparsely punctured; clypeus subtruncate anteriorly, widely rounded at sides, thickly bordered, edge glabrous, anteriorly slightly reflexed; genae subacutely angulate, near imperceptibly bristled, protruding beyond eyes; frontal suture finely impressed, mutic; front evenly, finely sparsely punctured. Pronotum transverse, moderately convex, dually punctured; large, coarse punctures, five to six times larger than small, irregularly sparse on sides, lacking on disc; small, fine punctures evenly scattered throughout, somewhat more superficial and sparser on disc; lateral margins nearly straight, thickly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles subtruncate, almost imperceptibly bristled; base feebly bisinuate, not bordered. Scutellum flat, impunctate. Elytra oval elongate, moderately convex, deeply striate; striae fine, superficially punctured, subcrenulate; intervals feebly convex, sparsely irregularly finely punctured on basal half; more densely and deeply punctured in posterior half. Hind tibiae superior apical spur shorter than first tarsal segment; latter as long as following three combined. Male: pronotum relatively more transverse, less convex and more sparsely punctured; posterior half of elytra with short, dense pubescence; aedeagus Fig. 26-27 . Female: pronotum relatively less transverse, more convex and more densely punctured; elytra glabrous.

Type material. Holotype male ( SEMC) label data “/ San Idelfonso Hills , 1900-4000 masl, Dept. Amazonas / Peru, S. A., July 26, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3755/” . Allotype female ( SEMC) label data “/ Dept. Amazonas, Collected on way to Chachapoyas as from San Idelfonso / Peru, S. A., July 30, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3755/” .

Additional paratypes (17): PERU: Dept. Amazonas: San Idelfonso Hills , 1900-4000 m asl, July 26, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3755 (2 SEMC) ; same data except, July 3, 1936 (2 DCGI) ; same data except, July 27, 1936 (3 SEMC) ; same data except, July 30, 1936 (2 SEMC) ; same data except, July 31, 1936 (2 SEMC) ; Collected on way to Chachapoyas from San Idelfonso , Aug. 1, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3756 (2 SEMC) ; same data except, Aug. 2, 1936 (1 FSCA) ; San Idelfonso Hills , 1900-4000 m asl, Aug. 3, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3756 (1 FSCA) ; Vicinity of Chachapoyas, Aug. 4, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3756 (1 SEMC). Dept. San Martin: Vicinity of Rioja , Nov. 23, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3759 (1 SEMC). Many of the paratypes have broken legs or tarsi .

Distribution. Known from Peru, Departments of Amazonas and San Martin.

Etymology. Named in honor of F. Woytkowski, a naturalist active in Peru from the 1930s until the early 1960s who collected all the specimens of typical series.

Figures

Figure 25-29. Neotrichaphodioides woytkowskii, new species (holotype male). 25) Morphological details of habitus. 26-27) Aedeagus (dorsal and lateral view). 28) Epipharynx. 29) Habitus.