Pleuraphodius vespuccii
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
Pleuraphodius vespuccii (Petrovitz, 1972)
Aphodius vespuccii Petrovitz, 1972: 162.
Pleuraphodius vespucci – Skelley et al. 2007: 6.
Diagnosis
Length 3.5 mm. Body narrow, weakly arched. Head densely punctured with anterior margin somewhat elevate, clypeus faintly sinuate. Pronotum with posterior marginal line. Elytra with humerus lacking teeth; interstriae somewhat raised, third, fifth and sixth interstriae more elevate than others.
Sexual dimorphism
No information available in literature.
Collecting information
No information available in literature.
Remarks
Pleuraphodius is a genus considered to be restricted to the Old World (Dellacasa et al. 2001a). Pleuraphodius vespuccii was described from Serra de Paranapiacaba, São Paulo State, Brazil, but Skelley et al. (2007) comment on how this species may have been described based on a mislabeled specimen and should probably be removed from the list of New World taxa.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Petrovitz
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Pleuraphodius
- Species
- vespuccii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pleuraphodius vespuccii (Petrovitz, 1972) sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026
References
- Petrovitz R. 1972. Neue laparostikte Scarabaeidaen aus der Orientalischen and Neotropischen Region. Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana 51: 161-168.
- Skelley P. E., Dellacasa M., Dellacasa G. & Gordon R. D. 2007. Checklist of the Aphodiini of Mexico, Central and South America (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Insecta Mundi 14: 1-14.
- Dellacasa G., Bordat P. & Dellacasa M. 2001 a. A revisional essay of world genus-group taxa of Aphodiinae (Coleoptera Aphodiidae). Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana 79: 1-482.