Goudotostes sp. D

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

8.52 Goudotostes sp. D

( Figs 76 e-f, 77)

Material examined. 1 ♀ ( CASC): / CASENT 8013760 / Madagascar: Province de Mahajanga, Parc National d’Ankarafantsika, Ampijoroa Station Forestière , 40 km 306° NW Andranofasika, elev. 130 m 26 March- 1 April 2001 / 16° 19’ 15” S 046° 48’ 38” E coll. Fisher, Griswold et al. California Acad. of Sciences sifted litter in tropical dry forest collection code: BLF3522 /.

Possibly a new species, belonging to the scabrosus group of species, closely resembling G. siccaesilvae sp. nov. and differing from it because of the less raised basal pronotal carina (lateral view).

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.