Synarmostes sp. A

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

publication ID

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

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0F747550-1167-FFDF-FCAE-AA441C559508

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scientific name

Synarmostes sp. A
status

 

Synarmostes sp. A

( Figs 34 View Fig c-d, g; 35)

Material examined. 2 ♀♀ ( CASC): / Madagascar: Province d’Antsiranana Réserve Spéciale de l’Ankarana 22.9 km 224° SW Anivorano Nord 10-16 Feb. 2001 / 12° 54 32” S 049° 6’ 35” E / coll. Fisher, Griswold et al. Calif. Academy of Sciences sifted litter tropical dry forest in tsingy 80 m BLF2972 GoogleMaps /.

Very likely a flightless new species, belonging to the antsingyi group of species. Because of the smooth scutellum it can be compared with S. caterinae sp. nov., from which differs in having shorter and more impressed pronotal punctation and more impressed and denser elytral punctation.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hybosoridae

Genus

Synarmostes

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