Dichotomius (Homocanthonides) Luederwaldt 1929

Nunes, Rafael V. & Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Z., 2019, Taxonomic revision of Dichotomius (Cephagonus) Luederwaldt 1929 and the taxonomic status of remaining Dichotomius Hope 1838 subgenera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Dichotomiini), Journal of Natural History 53 (37), pp. 2231-2351 : 2239

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2019.1692088

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3671946

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scientific name

Dichotomius (Homocanthonides) Luederwaldt 1929
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Dichotomius (Homocanthonides) Luederwaldt 1929 View in CoL

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Pinotus (Homocanthonides) Luederwaldt 1929 ı p. 59 (description)

Dichotomius (Homocanthonides) ı Martínez 1951 ı p. 140

Type species. Copris smaragdina Perty 1830 View in CoL ı by monotypy.

Diagnosis. according to Maldaner et al. (2018) ı it differs from the subgenus D. ( Dichotomius ) by having a body with a green metallic sheen and ventralthoracic sternites glabrousı lacking long dense setae; it differs from D. ( Cephagonus ) by clypeo-genal junction lacking angulationı ventral clypeal process pronounced into a small tubercleı not bifurcatedı and sixth abdominal sternite of females not differentiated by the presence of tuberclesı lobe or emarginations; and it differs from D. (selenocopris) by its single-rounded tooth on clypeal marginı and all meso and metatarsomeres with a row of yellow setae on ventral surface. Separated from other Dichotomius subgenera by having greenı metallic body colour and clypeal anterior margin with a single central-rounded lobe.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Dichotomius

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