Aphotaenius plaumanni Cartwright 1963
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 plaumanni Cartwright, 1963
Figs 20F, 38B
Aphotaenius plaumanni Cartwright, 1963: 49–50.
Haroldiataenius plaumanni – Chalumeau 1983b: 2 (lapsus calami).
Diagnosis
Length 2.6–2.7 mm. Head with large punctures; clypeus emarginate, margin obtusely angled on each side of emargination. Pronotum with punctures of two sizes; coarse punctures restricted to posterior and lateral margins; smaller punctures distributed across pronotal surface. Elytral interstriae with discrete punctures.
Material examined
BRAZIL – Rio Grande do Sul • 1 spec.; Santa Cruz do Sul, Cerro Alegre; 29°48′17″ S, 52°19′29″ W; 24 Dec. 2011; R. Bohn leg.; forest (trap p9); pitfall; bovine feces; CEMT.
Sexual dimorphism
Males with penultimate ventrite of abdomen narrower than those of females.
Collecting information
Specimens were collected with pitfalls baited with bovine feces (Skelley & Vaz-de-Mello 2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CEMT
- Event date
- 2011-12-24
- Verbatim event date
- 2011-12-24
- Scientific name authorship
- Cartwright
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Aphotaenius
- Species
- plaumanni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aphotaenius plaumanni Cartwright, 1963 sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026
References
- Cartwright O. L. 1963. Two new beetles of the genus Aphotaenius (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 17 (2): 49-51. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.372246
- Chalumeau F. 1983 b. Un nouvel Aphotaenius (Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: (?) Aphodiini ou Eupariini) de Bolivie et notes concernant les especes le composant. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de Mulhouse 1983: 1-4.
- 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