Blackburneus xanthus (Bates, 1887)

Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D., 2011, Systematic revision of the American taxa belonging to the genera Alloblackburneus Bordat, 2009, and Blackburneus Schmidt, 1913, with description of seven new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Insecta Mundi 2011 (204), pp. 1-52 : 33-34

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10090539

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5165152

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/504AB401-FFCB-FF91-FF0C-0106E44EFB79

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scientific name

Blackburneus xanthus (Bates, 1887)
status

 

Blackburneus xanthus (Bates, 1887)

( Fig. 150-154 View Figures 150-159 )

Aphodius xanthus Bates, 1887: 90 ; Blackwelder 1944: 212.

Aphodius (Blackburneus) xanthus ; Schmidt 1913: 138; Dellacasa 1988: 216.

Blackburneus xanthus ; Dellacasa et al. 2002: 206; Skelley et al. 2007: 2.

Typelocality. Bugaba, Panama.

Type repository. Natural History Museum, London (type examined).

Redescription. Length 3.0- 3.5 mm; oblong, convex, shiny, glabrous. Testaceous, elytralsuture darkened; legs testaceous; antennal club pale testaceous. Head with epistome convex, superficially microreticulate, finely and somewhat irregularly punctured; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, obtusely round at sides, very thinly bordered, edge glabrous, slightly upturned anteriorly; genae round, shortly and sparsely ciliate, not protruding from the eyes; frontal suture distinctly impressed; front irregularly and sparsely punctured. Pronotum transverse, convex, dually and sparsely punctured, nearly parallelsided; lateral margins feebly arcuate, very thinly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles obtusely round; base feebly bisinuate. Scutellum triangularly elongate, faintly microreticulate, sparsely punctured. Elytra oval-elongate; finely striate; striae distinctly punctured, subcrenulate; interstriae flat, laterally superficially microreticulate, smooth at middle, very finely and sparsely punctured. Hind tibiae superior apical spur slightly shorter than first tarsal segment; latter nearly as long as following three segments combined. Male: metasternal plate distinctly grooved; aedeagus Fig. 152-153 View Figures 150-159 . Female: metasternal plate nearly flat.

Material examined. COSTA RICA: Prov. Puntarenas, Palmar Sur , United Fruit Co., 5.VIII.1964, leg. R. E. Woodruff (black light trap) (2 exx., FSCA) ; HONDURAS: Tegucigalpa , 1-12.XII.1917, leg. J. Dyer (1 ex., USNM) ; PANAMA: Chiriqui: Chiriquicito , 16.V.1996, leg. R. Turnbow (mv+bl) (2 exx., FSCA; 7 exx., RHTC) ; Chiriqui, Dolega , 25.VI.1964, leg. A. Broce (2 exx., DCGI) ; Chiriqui, Dolequita , 25.VII.1964, leg. A. Broce (4 exx., DCGI) ; Chiriqui: Elvira Farm , 15.VII.1964, leg. A. Broce (1 ex., DCGI) ; Prov. Chiriqui, Rovira , 2200 ft., 4.VII.1964, leg. A. B. Broce (3 exx., DCGI; 9 exx., FSCA) ; idem, 7.VII.1964 (1 ex., FSCA) ; idem, 9.VII.1964 (1 ex., FSCA) ; idem, 19.VII.1964 (1 ex., FSCA) ; 0.3 Km W El Llano , 12.V.1996, leg. R. Turnbow (1 ex., RHTC) ; La Chorrera , 14.V.1912, leg. A. Busek (1 ex., USNM) ; Panamá Prov., Cerro Campana , 11-15.V.1980, leg. E. G. Riley & D. LeDoux (2 exx., FSCA) ; Puerto Armuelles , 12- 19.VII.1982, leg. A. Castillo (Malaise trap) (1 ex. DCGI; 3 exx., FSCA) .

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Aphodiidae

Genus

Blackburneus

Loc

Blackburneus xanthus (Bates, 1887)

Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D. 2011
2011
Loc

Aphodius xanthus

Bates 1887: 90
1887
Loc

Aphodius (Blackburneus) xanthus

Bates 1887
1887
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