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TABLE 1 in Platytomus pittinoi Minkina & Byk, a new species of Psammodiini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from Greece

  • 1. os. Polana Szaflarska 4 / 39, 34 - 400 Nowy Targ, Poland. klekel @ interia. eu
  • 2. Department of Forest Protection, Institute of Forest Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159 / 34, 02 - 776 Warszawa, Poland. adam _ byk @ sggw. edu. pl, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9505 - 3436 tomasz _ mokrzycki @ sggw. edu. pl, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0931 - 3869
  • 3. Południowa 14, 29 - 100 Włoszczowa, Poland. cjn @ o 2. pl
  • 4. Prosta 290 D / 2, 25 - 385 Kielce, Poland. zuk 55 @ o 2. pl

Description

TABLE 1. Differential characters of Platytomus pittinoi Minkina & Byk, new species and P. laevistriatus (Perris, 1870).

CharacterPlatytomus laevistriatus (Perris, 1870)P. pittinoi Minkina & Byk, new species
number of long macrosetae on pygidiumtwo longer (Fig. 12) or shorter (Fig. 13) macrosetaetwo (Fig. 9) or four (Fig. 10) long macrosetae; outer pair shorter
shape of eroded, deeply indented surface above long macrosetae on pygidiumone area, shaped more or less like a bull’s-horn scalp (Figs 12, 13)very large, ocellate one (Fig. 10) to two egg-shaped areas on each side (Fig. 9)
body length3.0–4.6 mm2.9–3.6 mm
macrosetation of basal edge of genaedenser, macrosetae longer than tarsomere 2 of protibiae (Fig. 7)much sparser, macrosetae much shorter than tarsomere 2 of protibiae (Fig. 8)
epipharynxsomewhat less transverse (Fig. 16)somewhat more transverse (Fig. 15)
aedeagussomewhat plumper in lateral view (Fig. 14)somewhat thinner in lateral view (Fig. 11)

Notes

Published as part of Minkina, Łukasz, Byk, Adam, Nowak, Cezary, Bidas, Marek & Mokrzycki, Tomasz, 2023, Platytomus pittinoi Minkina & Byk, a new species of Psammodiini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from Greece, pp. 280 in Zootaxa 5319 (2) on page 280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5319.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/8182577

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