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Rhyparus malaitaensis Minkina, Skelley, Jakl, Kral, & Li 2025
Authors/Creators
- 1. Florida State Collection of Arthropods & Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- 2. os. Polana Szaflarska 4 / 39, 34 - 400 Nowy Targ, Poland
Description
Rhyparus malaitaensis Minkina, Skelley, Jákl, Král, & Li, 2025
Rhyparus malaitaensis Minkina, Skelley, Jákl, Král, & Li, 2025: 568–571. Type locality: Solomon Islands, Malaita Island, south coast Hahorarumu Uru, Tribal Area.
Material examined. Type materials as cited and illustrated in the description of Minkina et al. (2025) from the Solomon Islands.
Comments. This species also belongs to the complex of species where the females have a modified apical abdominal ventrite and pygidium (see comments under R. vanuatuensis). It appears that each island region in Indonesia may have a different localized species in this complex.
Notes
Published as part of Skelley, Paul E. & Minkina, Łukasz, 2025, Review of the Rhyparini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) of eastern Melanesia and Polynesia, with descriptions of new species, pp. 115-137 in Zootaxa 5632 (1) on pages 135-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5632.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/15371661
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Minkina, Skelley, Jakl, Kral, & Li
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Rhyparus
- Species
- malaitaensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhyparus malaitaensis Minkina, 2025 sec. Skelley & Minkina, 2025
References
- Minkina, L., Skelley, P. E., Jakl, S., Kral, D. & Li, X. - F. (2025) Review of the genus Rhyparus Westwood, 1845 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) in the Solomon Islands with description of two new species. Zootaxa, 5570 (3), 563-573. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5570.3.7