Gonaphodiopsis hypogea, 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 : 24-25

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5187152

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scientific name

Gonaphodiopsis hypogea
status

sp. nov.

Gonaphodiopsis hypogea new species

( Fig. 109-113 View Figure 109-119 )

Type locality. Salamander Cave, Gomes Farias, Rancho del Cielo, 3700’, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Type repository. Canadian Museum of Nature (Howden Collection), Ottawa, Canada.

Description. Length 5.0-5.5 mm; shortly oblong, strongly convex, shiny, glabrous. Dark chestnut brown to blackish; clypeal margin paler; legs more or less dark brown; antennal club testaceous. Head with epistome feebly gibbous medially, slightly depressed anteriorly, rather finely, not closely, evenly punctured; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, round at sides, very finely bordered, edge glabrous; genae obtusely round, not ciliate, protruding from the eyes. Pronotum strongly convex, moderately transverse, dually punctured and with a transverse belt of large, deep and contiguous punctures crenulating a sort of thick edge close to basal margin; large, coarse punctured, six to seven times larger than small ones, irregularly, rather closely scattered on sides, lacking on disc; small, very fine punctures evenly sparse throughout; lateral margins almost parallel, inwardly sinuate before hind angles, rather thickly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles broadly truncate; truncation distinctly inwardly sinuate; base feebly bisinuate. Scutellum elongate, flat, sparsely finely punctured. Elytra widened posteriorly, strongly convex, strongly denticulate at shoulder, deeply striate; striae rather fine, coarsely, not closely punctured, crenulate; interstriae convex on disc, subcariniform on preapical declivity, very finely, sparsely punctured. Hind tibiae upper spur shorter than first tarsal segment; first tarsal segment distinctly longer than following three segments combined. Male: pronotum relatively less coarsely and less densely punctured; aedeagus Fig. 112-113 View Figure 109-119 . Female: pronotum relatively more coarsely and more densely punctured.

Type material. MEXICO: San Luis Potosí: Cuevas de los Caballos, entrance area, 30 Km E San Luis Potosí, Mpio. Zaragoza, m 3000, 18.V.1972, leg. McEachern M. (1 paratype, CMNO) ; Tamaulipas: Cueva de Rancho del Cielo , 06-07.II.1964, leg. Reddell J., Mckenzie D. & Maniré L. D. (1 paratype, CMNO) ; Rancho del Cielo, Gomez Farias, Salamander Cave , 3700’, 01-04.VII.1969, leg. Peck S. & J. (male holotype , allotype, CNCI ; 6 paratypes, CMNO, DCGI) ; Veracruz: Cueva de Nacimiento Grande , fisch bld., 22.VIII.1965, leg. Reddell J. (2 paratypes, CMNO, DCGI) .

Distribution. Mexico (San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz).

Etymology. Named after the Latin word hypogeus [= hypogeal].

Bionomics. Almost unknown. The specimens of the type series were collected in late winter, spring and summer in caves.

CNCI

Canadian National Collection Insects

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Aphodiidae

Genus

Gonaphodiopsis

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