Goudotostes sp. G

Ballerio, Alberto, 2021, The Ceratocanthinae of Madagascar and Comoro Islands: a revision of the genera Synarmostes and Goudotostes, and of the flightless Philharmostes, with description of 64 new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea, Hybosoridae), Fragmenta entomologica 53 (2), pp. 105-282 : 204

8.46 Goudotostes sp. G

( Figs 76 a-b, 77)

Material examined. 1 ♀ ( CASC): / Antsiranana forêt d’Analabe, 30.0 km 72° ENE Daraina el. 30 m 27 November 2003 / 13° 05’ 00” S 049° 54’ 30” E California Acad. of Sciences coll. B. L. Fisher, sifted litter (leaf mold, rotten wood) littoral rainforest BLF9426 /.

Possibly a new species, belonging to the scabrosus group of species, closely resembling G. orangeanus sp. nov. because of the pronotal sculpturing but with a smaller clypeal tubercle.

Figures

Fig. 76 – Goudotostes sp., undescribed females (not to scale), a–b, Goudotostes sp. from Antsiranana, forêt d’Analabe; c–d, Goudotostes sp. from Mahajanga, Mahavavy River 6.2 km 145° SE Mitsinjo; e–f, Goudotostes sp. from Mahajanga, Parc National d’Ankarafantsika, Ampijoroa Station Forestière; g–h, Goudotostes sp.from Toliara, Forêt Classée d’Analavelona.