Mesontoplatys bolzi (Petrovitz) Gordon & Bordat & Dellacasa & Dellacasa, 2008

Gordon, Robert D., Bordat, Patrice, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Dellacasa, Marco, 2008, Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) of the Mpala Research Centre and environs, Laikipia District, Kenya, Insecta Mundi 2008 (28), pp. 1-15 : 8

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4532811

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4532879

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0394878C-A128-FFBF-FA9D-FEDBFC65BC02

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scientific name

Mesontoplatys bolzi (Petrovitz)
status

comb. nov.

Mesontoplatys bolzi (Petrovitz) n. comb.

Aphodius (Mesontoplatys) bolzi Petrovitz, 1967: 211 .

Specimens examined (4): Kenya, Laikipia, MRC, 1800 m, N00 o 17’ - E36 o 53’, 1-13. GoogleMaps V.2003, #1, leg. R. Gordon, Impala dung (4). ( MRC) ( NMK) ( USNM) .

Geographical distribution: Tanzania, these specimens may be the first Kenya records.

Dung preference: All four specimens were found in impala dung.

MRC

TUBITAK Marmara Research Center Culture Collection

NMK

National Museums of Kenya

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Aphodiidae

Genus

Mesontoplatys

Loc

Mesontoplatys bolzi (Petrovitz)

Gordon, Robert D., Bordat, Patrice, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Dellacasa, Marco 2008
2008
Loc

Aphodius (Mesontoplatys) bolzi

Petrovitz 1967: 211
1967
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