Rhyparus sepikensis Stebnicka, 1998

Minkina, Ÿukasz, Anichtchenko, Alexander, Vasiljeva, Anastasija & Skelley, Paul E., 2022, Four new species of the genus Rhyparus Westwood, 1845 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) with modified pygidium and last abdominal ventrite in females, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (1), pp. 81-101 : 92-97

Rhyparus sepikensis Stebnicka, 1998

( Figs. 16 –19, 25, 33)

Rhyparus sepikensis Stebnicka, 1998: 844 , fig. 7. Type locality: “ Papua New Guinea, West Sepik Province, Torricelli Mtns, Mokai Village, 750m ”. Rhyparus sepikensis : Mencl et al., 2013: 495.

Type material examined. Paratype (): Holotype | Rhyparus | sepikensis sp. n. | det. Z.Stebnicka || New Guinea: NE. | Torricello Mts. | Mokai vill. 750m. | 1­ 23.i.1959 || W.W. Brandt | collector | Bishop ||.

Comment. Stebnicka designated holotype of R. sepikensis as male. Author loan from BPBM holotype which occur female. Probably labels are switched.

Distribution. Known from Papua New Guinea: West Sepik – only from type series.

Minkina Ł., Anichtchenko A., Vasiljeva A., Skelley P.E.

Minkina Ł., Anichtchenko A., Vasiljeva A., Skelley P.E.

, holotype: 37 – dorsal view; 38 – ventral view; 39 –

Four new species of the genus Rhyparus Westwood, 1845 ( Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Aphodiinae ) with modified...

Figures

Figs. 16–18. Rhyparus sepikensis Stebnicka, 1998.,, paratype: Fig. 19. Rhyparus sepikensis 16 – dorsal view, direct projection on pronotum; 17 – ventral Stebnicka, 1998.,, paratype: view; 18 – lateral view. Scale lines: 1.0 mm. dorsal view, direct projection on elytra. Scale line: 1.0 mm.