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Arupaia Stebnicka 1999
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
Genus Arupaia Stebnicka, 1999
Diagnosis
Length 5.5–6.0 mm. Body elongate, dark reddish brown. Head wide; clypeus longitudinally wrinkled, strongly gibbous; frontoclypeal suture absent; frons punctate. Pronotum wide; with large and oval punctures; lateral margins straight, explanate and furrowed; posterior margin with deep groove. Elytra with humerus forwardly expanded, apically glabrous; fifth interstriae with anterior tubercle; fifth stria grooved anteriorly. Legs elongate and slender.
Remarks
Arupaia is a monotypic genus currently only known from Brazil (Stebnicka 2009).
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 61, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1038.3175, http://zenodo.org/record/19369988
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Stebnicka
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Arupaia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Arupaia Stebnicka, 1999 sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026