Paraegidium monneorum Frolov, Akhmetova

Frolov, Andrey V., Akhmetova, Lilia A. & Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Z., 2017, Revision of the South American genus Paraegidium Vulcano et al. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae), Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 51 (17 - 18), pp. 995-1014 : 998-1004

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2017.1326640

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BD40ACCF-3EEB-43C3-BC54-0D2BB88F679F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5190706

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Paraegidium monneorum Frolov, Akhmetova
status

 

Paraegidium monneorum Frolov, Akhmetova & Vaz-de-Mello, sp. nov.

( Figures 1 View Figure 1 (a–d), 7)

Type locality

Brazil, Goiás, Minaçu, Serra da Mesa.

Type material examined

Holotype, male at MNRJ labelled ‘ BRASIL. Goias Mun. Minaçu Serra da Mesa X. 1985 L. C. Alvarenga / Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro / Paraegidium sp. Vaz-de-Mello det 2003’.

Diagnosis

P. monneorum sp. nov. can be separated from the other species of the genus by having relatively long parameres (ratio phallobase length/paramere length 1.9, Figure 1 View Figure 1 (c)) and truncated lobes of the anterior frontoclypeal process ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (a)).

Description

Holotype, male ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (a–d)).

Body length 7.9 mm. Colour uniformly brown.

Anterior frontoclypeal process long and wide, as wide as head, sinuate medially, with symmetric lateral lobes; the lobes truncated apically, in lateral view their lateral angles not directed caudally.

Pronotum narrower than elytra, deeply excavated in middle. Lateral pronotal processes depressed, somewhat ridge-shaped, their hind margins with carinae reaching base of pronotum. Pronotum coarsely punctate to rugose except for very apices of lateral pronotal processes and a narrow area near anterior margin.

Aedeagus with long parameres: ratio phallobase width/paramere width 1.9 ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (c)). Endophallus with a group of spinules ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (b)). Apices of parameres acute in lateral view ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (d)).

Female. unknown.

Distribution

The species is known from one locality in the Brazilian state of Goiás ( Figure 7 View Figure 7 ). Etymology

The species is named after Miguel and Marcela Monné, Coleoptera curators at the National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, responsible in great part for the present Brazilian Coleoptera taxonomy school.

MNRJ

Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hybosoridae

Genus

Paraegidium

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