Gonaphodioides columbicus ( Harold, 1880 ) Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon, 2012

Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D., 2012, Systematic revision of Gonaphodiellus taxa, with description of two new genera and fourteen new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Insecta Mundi 2012 (230), pp. 1-41 : 18-19

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5174222

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scientific name

Gonaphodioides columbicus ( Harold, 1880 )
status

comb. nov.

Gonaphodioides columbicus ( Harold, 1880) new combination

( Fig. 78-83 View Figure 78-88 )

Aphodius columbicus Harold, 1880: 36 ; Blackwelder 1944: 212.

Aphodius (Gonaphodiellu s) columbicus ; Schmidt 1913: 134; 1922: 121; Dellacasa 1988: 314.

Gonaphodiellus (s. l.) columbicus ; Skelley et al. 2007: 4 View Cited Treatment .

Type locality. Bogotá [ Colombia].

Type repository. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France (lectotype herein designated).

Redescription. Length 4.0-5.0 mm, elongate, moderately convex, shiny, glabrous. Chestnut-brown; clypeal margin, sides of pronotum, apex of elytra shadowy reddish; legs pale reddish; antennal club testaceous. Head with epistome feebly gibbous, finely regularly and rather sparsely punctured throughout; clypeus slightly sinuate at middle, obtusely angulate at sides, faintly bordered; edge distinct and somewhat upturned anteriorly only, glabrous; genae subangulose, not ciliate, protruding from the eyes; frontal suture finely impressed; front finely and sparsely punctured. Pronotum transverse, moderately convex, finely, regularly and rather sparsely punctured; punctation somewhat denser anteriorly; sides feebly curved, very finely bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles widely truncate, truncature slightly inwardly sinuate; base distinctly bisinuate. Scutellum ogival elongate, somewhat depressed and distinctly microreticulate basally. Elytra convex, elongate with humeral denticle very small; striae fine, superficially punctured, not crenulate; interstriae distinctly convex on disc and nearly imperceptibly punctured laterally, nearly flattened subapically. Hind tibiae upper spur as long as half of first tarsal segment; first tarsal segment longer than following three segments combined. Male: pronotum relatively more transverse and less convex, parallel-sided with anterior discal punctation finer; elytra more elongate, nearly parallel-sided; fore tibiae more slender and more elongate, their spur downward bent; aedeagus Fig. 82-83 View Figure 78-88 . Female: pronotum relatively less transverse and more convex, somewhat narrowed anteriorly, uniformly punctured throughout; elytra shorter and somewhat broadened backward; fore tibiae more stout and shorter, their spur straight.

Type material. Lectotype, male, herein designated ( MNHN), bearing the following labels: 1) white, handwritten: Bogotá; 2) white, printed: ex Musaeo/E. Steinheil; 3) red, printed: Aphodius / columbicus / Harold, 1880; 4) red, printed: Lectotypus/ M. & G. Dellacasa des. 2001 .

Paralectotypes: 3 males and 4 females from Bogotá (paralectotypes, MNHN) ; 3 females from La Luzera [ Colombia], ex Musaeo / E. Steinheil (paralectotypes, MNHN) ; 1 male and 1 female from Viani, ex Musaeo / Harold (paralectotypes, , MNHN) ; 1 female from Noescen. [ Colombia?] (paralectotype, MNHN) ; 1 female from Colombia, ex Musaeo / E. Harold (paralectotype, MNHN) .

Material examined. COLOMBIA: Agnas Largas près Bogotá, 1877, leg. Thieme O. (1 ex., MNHN) ; Bogotá (1 ex., DCGI) ; Bogotá, 1877, leg. Thieme O. (3 exx., MNHN) ; Oberhalb Bogotá, 1000’, 1877, leg. Thieme O. (3 exx., MNHN) ; Papayan , 1899, leg. Abbé Gaujon (1 ex., MNHN) ; Santander, R. Natural Cachalú, m 2150-2250, III.1999, leg. Gonzales F. (2 exx., DCGI) . VENEZUELA: Merida, Mucuy Fish Hatchery , 7 Km E Tabay, 6600’, 10-13.II.1978, leg. Heppner J. B., black light (3 exx., DCGI) ; Merida, La Mucuy Estacion , 10-15.VIII.1976, leg. Bordon C. (4 exx., DCGI) ; Merida, La Mucuy , m 2300, 10.IX.1965, leg. Bordon C. (1 ex., DCGI) ; Trujillo, Paramo del Guaramacal , m 3000, 24.V.1980, leg. Bordon C. (5 exx., DCGI) .

Distribution. Colombia, Venezuela.

Bionomics. Poorly known; the specimens examined were collected in spring, summer and early autumn.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Aphodiidae

Genus

Gonaphodioides

Loc

Gonaphodioides columbicus ( Harold, 1880 )

Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D. 2012
2012
Loc

Aphodius (Gonaphodiellu s) columbicus

Dellacasa, M. 1988: 314
Schmidt, A. 1922: 121
Schmidt, A. 1913: 134
1913
Loc

Aphodius columbicus

Blackwelder, R. E. 1944: 212
Harold, E. 1880: 36
1880
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