Neosisyphus kuehni ( Haaf, 1955 )

Daniel, Gimo M., Davis, Adrian Lv., Sole, Catherine L. & Scholtz, Clarke H., 2020, Taxonomic review of the tribe Sisyphini sensu stricto Mulsant, 1842 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in southern Africa, including new species descriptions, Insect Systematics & Evolution 51 (1), pp. 1-61 : 53-54

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1163/1876312X-00002195

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:701C1742-718D-4486-A158-AEA608BA8576

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3794453

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D474D525-FFAF-7C51-D769-9ED5FD1AFCEF

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scientific name

Neosisyphus kuehni ( Haaf, 1955 )
status

 

Neosisyphus kuehni ( Haaf, 1955) View in CoL ( Figs. 26 View Fig , 27B View Fig )

Montreuil 2015: 28.

Sisyphus kuehni Haaf, 1955 View in CoL

Haaf 1955: 345; Montreuil 2015: 28.

Type locality: Natal (Griqualand), South Africa.

Size: Male: length: 13.5–10; width: 6.5–5.5; Female: length: 13.0–11; width: 6.5–5.6.

Diagnosis: N. kuehni bears a gibbosity apically on the metafemur, which is lacking in the closely-related N. quadricollis . The projecting metatrochanter in males of N. kuehni is also longer, comprising over half of the total length of the metafemur. Unlike in N. quadricollis , the elytra in N. kuehni are not laterally emarginate.

Examined non-type material: See Supplementary information.

Distribution: N. kuehni occurs in highland grassland under the moist to wet conditions of the eastern escarpment of South Africa (Eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal and Mpumalanga) ( Fig. 28 View Fig ).

Conservation status: N. kuehni was assessed as a Data Deficient species for the IUCN Red Date List ( Davis 2013g). Further collecting and monitoring is required to accurately assess the conservation status of this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Neosisyphus

Loc

Neosisyphus kuehni ( Haaf, 1955 )

Daniel, Gimo M., Davis, Adrian Lv., Sole, Catherine L. & Scholtz, Clarke H. 2020
2020
Loc

Montreuil 2015: 28 .
Loc

Sisyphus kuehni

Haaf 1955: 345
Montreuil 2015: 28 .
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