Phaeaphodius jouravliowi ( Reitter, 1907 )

Dellacasa, Marco & Dellacasa, Giovanni, 2016, Systematic revision of the genus Phaeaphodius Reitter, 1892 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Zootaxa 4162 (1), pp. 143-163 : 151

Phaeaphodius jouravliowi ( Reitter, 1907)

( Figs. 18–23 )

Aphodius (Phaeaphodius) jouravliowi Reitter, 1907: 408 ; Balthasar 1964: 285 (as synonym of dauricus ); Dellacasa & Dellacasa 2006: 133.

Aphodius (Phaeaphodius) jouravliowi var. latonius Reitter, 1907: 409 ; Balthasar 1964: 285 (as color variation of Aphodius dauricus ).

Phaeaphodius jouravliowi: Dellacasa & Dellacasa 2016: 144 .

Type locality. Ural [Uralsk, im Steppenland südlich von Ural; ex original description].

Type depository. Aphodius jouravliowi: Magyar Természettudomàny Muzéum , Budapest, Hungary (type examined); Aphodius jouravliowi latonius : unknown to authors.

Redescription. Length 5.5–6.0 mm; elongate, moderately convex, rather dull, glabrous. Head, pronotum, and scutellum black, elytra dirty yellow ( Fig. 20 ), sometimes elytra with juxtasutural interstria and sides shadowy piceous ( Fig. 21 ); legs reddish brown, antennal club piceous. Head with epistome moderately convex, depressed toward clypeal margin, coarsely and somewhat irregularly punctate on disc; punctation confusedly subrugose distally; clypeus distinctly sinuate at middle, round on sides, thickly bordered, edge upturned, glabrous; genae obtusely round, setose, protruding from the eyes; frontal suture finely impressed, front distinctly irregularly punctate. Pronotum transverse, moderately convex, dually punctate; large punctures, five to six times larger than small punctures, denser on sides; fine small punctures rather regularly scattered throughout; lateral margins almost straight, thickly bordered, edge sparsely setose; hind angles widely truncate, truncation feebly sinuate inwardly; base faintly bisinuate, entirely bordered, the border crenulate by a series of contiguous punctures. Scutellum triangularly elongate, flat, irregularly punctate on basal half. Elytra moderately convex, subparallel-sided, rather deeply striate; striae crenulate; interstriae flat, superficially and finely microreticulate thus almost dull, near imperceptibly sparsely punctate. Metatibiae superior spur as long as first metatarsomere; latter as long as following 3 metatarsomeres combined. Male: frontal suture with vestiges of a median tubercle; pronotum more transverse, less convex and more sparsely punctate; protibiae spur stout, distinctly hooked apically; aedeagus Figs. 2 2–23 . Female: frontal suture without tubercle; pronotum more convex, somewhat narrowed apically and more densely punctate; protibiae spur almost straight.

Distribution. Russia (Siberia, Ural, and Altai mountains).

Material examined. RUSSIA: West Siberia: Barnaulka, Sibiria occidentalis (1 specimen, ZMHB) ; Krasnojarsk, Jenisseisgeb [ western Siberia ] (1 specimen, DCG) ; Ural [ex original description: Uralsk, im Steppenland südlich von Ural] (1 specimen, male holotype, HNHM) .

Bionomics. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 13 – 23. Phaeaphodius himalorectus (Ahrens & Stebnicka, 1997) (Nepal, Himalaya, Myagdi District, 2100 – 2300 m, paratype). 13, epipharynx; 14 – 15. habitus (scale bar and morphological details); 16 – 17, aedeagus (dorsal and lateral views). Phaeaphodius jouravliowi (Reitter, 1907) (Ural). 18, epipharynx; 19 – 21, habitus (morphological details, scale bar, and color variations); 22 – 23, aedeagus (dorsal and lateral views).

FIGURES 1 – 12. Phaeaphodius costalis (Gebler, 1848) (Kazakhstan, Kurgaldzhino, Lake Sultan). 1, epipharynx; 2 – 3. habitus (scale bar and morphological details); 4 – 5. aedeagus (dorsal and lateral views). Phaeaphodius dauricus (Harold, 1863) (Turkmenia mer., Tedžen). 6, epipharynx; 7 – 10, habitus (morphological details, scale bar, and color variations); 11 – 12, aedeagus (dorsal and lateral views).