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Aidophus kolbei

  • 1. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia, Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Av. Fernando Correa da Costa, 2367 Boa Esperança, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil. & Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e Ambientais, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Rodovia Dourados / Itahum, Km 12 - Unidade II, Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
  • 2. Florida State Collection of Arthropods, 1911 SW 34 Street, Gainesville, Florida 32608, USA. & Paul.
  • 3. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia, Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Av. Fernando Correa da Costa, 2367 Boa Esperança, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil. & Instituto Nacional de Coleoptera (INCol) an INCT (National Institute of Science and Technology) by Brazil's National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) (408430 / 2024 - 9).

Description

Aidophus kolbei (Schmidt, 1911) (new record)

Figs 1C–D, 33A

Didactylia kolbei Schmidt, 1911b: 36.

Aidophus kolbei – Dellacasa et al. 2001b: 206.

Diagnosis

Length 3.0– 3.5 mm. Head with clypeus sinuate, punctate with fine and spaced punctures; genal suture evident and somewhat raised; frons with punctures larger than those of clypeus. Pronotum with punctures of different sizes; larger punctures more concentrated laterally; posterior angles obtuse. Elytra microreticulate; interstriae flat with small and spaced punctures. First tarsomere of metatarsus a bit longer than larger apical spine and as long as the next three tarsomeres combined.

Material examined

BRAZIL – Mato Grosso • 3 ♂♂, 9 ♀♀; Cocalinho, Fazenda Água Preta; 14°08′22″ S, 51°28′53.33″ W; elev. 250 m; 9 Nov. 2019; M.E. Maldaner and F.Z. Vaz-de-Mello leg.; CEMT.

Sexual dimorphism

Males with head transverse, abdomen with large median fovea. Males with frons finely punctate, females with frons coarsely punctate.

Collecting data

Specimens were collected in pastures of sandy soil.

Notes

Published as part of Gama, Emanuel R. R., Skelley, Paul E. & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2026, Identification guide to the Aphodiinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of Brazil, pp. 1-225 in European Journal of Taxonomy 1038 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1038.3175, http://zenodo.org/record/19369988

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEMT
Event date
2019-11-09
Verbatim event date
2019-11-09
Scientific name authorship
Schmidt
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Aidophus
Species
kolbei
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aidophus kolbei (Schmidt, 1911) sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026

References

  • Schmidt A. 1911 b. Funf neue Aphodiinen aus dem Museum zu London. Societas Entomologica 26: 14-16. Available from https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33102400 [accessed 20 Apr. 2024].
  • Dellacasa M., Gordon R. D., Horpootlian P. J., Stebnicka Z. & Dellacasa G. 2001 b. Systematic redefinition of the New World Didactyliini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) with descriptions of two new species of Aidophus Balthasar. Insecta Mundi 15 (4): 193-216.