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Omorgus (Omorgus) nocheles Scholtz 1990

  • 1. Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X 20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa & Laboratório de Scarabaeoidologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT), Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
  • 2. Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, PO Box 413, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
  • 3. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
  • 4. Laboratório de Scarabaeoidologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT), Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Description

Omorgus (Omorgus) nocheles Scholtz, 1990

Fig. 5

Omorgus (Omorgus) nocheles Scholtz, 1990: 1412 (original description); Gómez 2008: 515 (key for Argentinean species); Zidek 2013: 14 (checklist); Zidek 2017: 105 (checklist); Smith 2017: 86 (notes).

Omorgus nocheles: Deloya 2005: 122 (checklist).

Type specimen examined.

Holotype, by original designation (♂ LACM). First label [white, typeset]: “ El Bolson, Rio Negro, / ARGENTINA / Oct. 24–25, 1956 / Andor Kovacs ”. Second label [white with red border, Clarke Scholtz’s handwriting]: “ Omorgus / nocheles / 1988 / Scholtz / HOLOTYPE ”. Third label [white, printed]: “ [QR Code] / LACM ENT 160322 ” (Fig. 5 E). Type locality: “ Argentina, El Bolsón, Río Negro ”.

Geographic distribution.

Omorgus (O.) nocheles is known only from two specimens collected in 1956 in El Bolsón, Argentina (Scholtz 1990).

Notes

Published as part of da Costa-Silva, Vinícius, Strümpher, Werner P., Barclay, Maxwell V. L. & Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Z., 2024, An illustrated catalogue of South American species of Omorgus Erichson, 1847 (Coleoptera, Trogidae, Omorginae) including a neotype designation and taxonomical changes, pp. 81-101 in Contributions to Entomology 74 (1) on pages 81-101, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.74.e126799

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LACM
Material sample ID
LACM ENT 160322
Event date
1956-10-24
Verbatim event date
1956-10-24/25
Scientific name authorship
Scholtz
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Trogidae
Genus
Omorgus
Species
nocheles
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Omorgus (Omorgus) nocheles Scholtz, 1990 sec. Costa-Silva, Strümpher, Barclay & Vaz-de-Mello, 2024

References

  • Scholtz CH (1990) Revision of the Trogidae of South America (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Journal of Natural History 24: 1391 - 1456. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939000770841
  • Gómez RS (2008) Trogidae. In: Claps LE, Debandi G, Roig-Juñent S (Eds) Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos II. Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 509–518.
  • Zidek J (2013) Checklist and bibliography of the Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Insecta Mundi 314: 1–38.
  • Zidek J (2017) Updated checklist and bibliography of family Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Folia Heyrovskyana 25 (1): 93–127.
  • Smith ABT (2017) Southern South American Trogidae (Coleoptera): verification of specimens and notes on geographic distribution. Revista Chilena de Entomología 43: 81–103.
  • Deloya C (2005) Omorgus rodriguezae a new species from Mexico, and a key for the separation of the Central and North America species of the genus (Coleoptera: Trogidae). Folia Entomologica Mexicana 44 (Supl. 1): 121–129.
  • Scholtz CH (1990) Revision of the Trogidae of South America (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Journal of Natural History 24: 1391–1456. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939000770841