Aphotaenius gaucho Skelley & Vaz-de-Mello 2020
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
Aphotaenius gaucho Skelley & Vaz-de-Mello, 2020
Figs 20E, 38B
Aphotaenius gaucho Skelley & Vaz-de-Mello, 2020: 398.
Diagnosis
Length 2.5 mm. Head with scarce and fine punctures; lateral angles to clypeal emargination rounded. Pronotum with punctures of two sizes; small and big punctures uniformly and densely distributed across pronotal surface. Elytral interstriae with fine punctures.
Material examined
BRAZIL – Rio Grande do Sul • 1 spec.; Santa Cruz do Sul, Cerro Alegre; 29°48′19″ S, 52°19′53″ W; 11 Feb. 2012; R. Bohn leg.; secondary forest; bovine feces; CEMT • 2 specs; same data as for preceding; 29°42′17″ S, 52°19′59″ W; 17 Dec. 2022; bovine feces; CEMT.
Sexual dimorphism
Males with penultimate ventrites of abdomen narrower than those of females.
Collecting information
Specimens are attracted to bovine feces (Skelley & Vaz-de-Mello 2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CEMT
- Event date
- 2012-02-11 , 2022-12-17
- Verbatim event date
- 2012-02-11 , 2022-12-17
- Scientific name authorship
- Skelley & Vaz-de-Mello
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Aphotaenius
- Species
- gaucho
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aphotaenius gaucho Skelley, 2020 sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026
References
- Skelley P. E. & Vaz-de-Mello FZ. 2020. Review of Aphotaenius Cartwright, 1952 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: Eupariini). The Coleopterists Bulletin 74: 389-403. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-74.2.389