Synarmostes sp. B

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 : 166-167

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.13133/2284-4880/545

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0F747550-1167-FFDC-FCAE-A86418629028

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scientific name

Synarmostes sp. B
status

 

Synarmostes sp. B

( Figs 34 View Fig e-f; 35)

Material examined. 1 ♀ ( CASC): / CASENT 8135301 / Madagascar: Toliara Prov. Parc National de Zombitse 19.8 km 84° E Sakaraha elev. 770 m 5-9 Feb. 2003 22° 50’ 36” S 044° 42’ 36” E / coll. Fisher, Griswold et al. California Acad. of Sciences sifted litter (leaf mold, rotten wood) in tropical dry forest collection code: BLF7510 GoogleMaps /.

Another likely flightless new species, belonging to the antsingyi group of species. It’s similar to S. beankae sp. nov. from which differs in having denser and shallower pronotal and elytral punctation and shallower and finer head punctation.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hybosoridae

Genus

Synarmostes

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