Neotrichaphodioides caracanus
Authors/Creators
- 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
Neotrichaphodioides caracanus (Balthasar, 1970)
Figs 5C–D, 37A
Aphodius (Gonaphodiellus) caracanus Balthasar, 1970: 250.
Gonaphodiellus (Gonaphodiellus) martinsi Petrovitz, 1970: 227.
Neotrichaphodioides caracanus – Dellacasa et al. 2010b: 3.
Diagnosis
Length 3.5–4.5 mm. Body light testaceous. Head with clypeus weakly sinuate, rounded. Pronotum with punctures of two sizes; posterior margin weakly sinuate. Elytra lighter than head and pronotum with darkened rounded spot; interstriae weakly convex.
Material examined
BRAZIL – Distrito Federal • 1 ♂; Planaltina, Embrapa Cerrados; 15°36′20″ S, 47°42′26″ W; 7 Oct. 2005; C. Oliveira leg.; cerrado fragment; light; CEMT • 1 ♂; same data as for preceding; 20 Oct. 2005; native cerrado; CEMT • 8 ♂♂, 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; 15°35′54″ S, 47°42′51″ W; 2 Dec. 2005; agricultural area; CEMT • 9 ♂♂, 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; 15°36′16″ S, 47°44′16″ W; native cerrado; CEMT • 4 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; 15°35′54″ S, 47°42′51″ W; 18 Nov. 2005; agricultural area; CEMT • 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; 15°36′16″ S, 47°44′16″ W; native cerrado; CEMT • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; 5 Jan. 2006; CEMT • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; 5°35′54″ S, 47°42′51″ W; 19 Jan. 2006; agricultural area; CEMT • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; 19 Jun. 2006; CEMT • 42 ♂♂, 91 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; 15°36′20″ S, 47°42′16″ W; 3 Nov. 2006; CEMT. – Mato Grosso • 1 ♂; Chapada dos Guimarães; 11 Dec. 2000; A.F. Ramos leg.; light; CEMT • 2 ♂♂; same data as for preceding; Santuário dos Elefantes; 2 Nov. 2019; F.Z. Vaz-de-Mello leg.; CEMT. – Minas Gerais • 1 ♂; Ijací, Fazenda FAEPE; Nov. 2002; J. Louzada leg.; CEMT.
Sexual dimorphism
Males with labial palpomere enlarged, head wider and clypeus less sinuate than that of females; females with head and pronotum more densely punctate.
Collecting information
Specimens are easily collected at light in Cerrado and agricultural areas. This species was found at altitudes up to 1380 m (Dellacasa et al. 2010b).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CEMT
- Event date
- 2000-12-11 , 2005-10-07 , 2005-10-20 , 2005-11-18 , 2005-12-02 , 2006-01-05 , 2006-01-19 , 2006-06-19 , 2006-11-03 , 2019-11-02
- Verbatim event date
- 2000-12-11 , 2005-10-07 , 2005-10-20 , 2005-11-18 , 2005-12-02 , 2006-01-05 , 2006-01-19 , 2006-06-19 , 2006-11-03 , 2019-11-02
- Scientific name authorship
- Balthasar
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Neotrichaphodioides
- Species
- caracanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neotrichaphodioides caracanus (Balthasar, 1970) sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026
References
- Balthasar V. 1970. Neue Arten der Scarabaeoidea. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 67: 245 - 253. Balthasar V. 1971. Neue Arten der Gattungen Onthophagus Latreille und Aphodius Illiger. Beitrage zur Entomologie 21 (1 - 2): 55-60.
- Petrovitz R. 1970. Neue neotropische Aphodiinae und Hybosorinae (Col). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 21: 225-243.
- Dellacasa M., Dellacasa G. & Skelley P. E. 2010 b. Neotrichaphodioides, new genus of Neotropical Aphodiini, with description of a new species from Peru (Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Insecta Mundi 133: 1-12.