Anomala pygidialis Kirsch, 1876

Prokofiev, Artem M., 2016, On the Phytophagous Scarabs of the Subfamilies Dynastinae, Rutelinae, and Melolonthinae from the Schouten Islands (Kepulauan Biak), Indonesian Papua (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Species Diversity 21, pp. 71-77 : 72

Anomala pygidialis Kirsch, 1876

Anomala pygidialis Kirsch, 1876: 141 .

Material. 4 females, Indonesia, Papua, Yapen I ., northern coast, Rosbori village , at light, 13– 14.11.2012, A . M . Prokofiev leg.

Remarks. This species was originally described from “Rubi [?], in the south of Geelvinksbay” and later was redescribed together with specimens from the Vogelkop Peninsula and the adjacent islands (Misool and Waigeo) ( Zorn 2007). Although I did not collected any males, my female specimens are closer to A. pygidialis than to two other very similar species ( A. biakensis Zorn, 2007 from Biak I. and A. bruggei Zorn, 2007 from Yapen I. and the adjacent coast of New Guinea) in displaying no any trace of a basal tooth on the protibia and in other minor details (see Zorn 2007: 38). Anomala bruggei co-occurs with A. pygidialis in area near Sorong city (northwestern coast of New Guinea) as well ( Zorn 2007).