Ataeniopsis parallelus CEMT
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
Ataeniopsis parallelus (Petrovitz, 1961)
Figs 8A–B, 39B
Ataenius parallelus Petrovitz, 1961b: 148.
Ataenius (Ataeniopsis) parallelus – Chalumeau 1992: 196.
Ataeniopsis parallelus – Stebnicka 2003b: 104.
Diagnosis
Length 2.8–3.0 mm. Body dark red. Head alutaceous, clypeus slightly sinuate with somewhat large denticles; sinuate area less than 1/3 the length of frons; frontoclypeal suture inconspicuous, present as a faint elevated line. Pronotum densely punctate with large and moderate punctures; posteriorly marginate. Elytra length approximately twice as long as pronotum; interstriae punctured by fine and inconspicuous punctures. Pygidium with three to four fine punctures along median carina; anterior margin glossy and convex.
Material examined
BRAZIL – Amazonas • Castanho-Careiro, AM-359 Km 39; 3°43′59″ S, 60°20′09″ W; 6–7 Nov. 2010; Rafael et al. leg.; light; CEMT.
Sexual dimorphism
Males with third abdominal ventrite wider than fourth. Females with body longer than males, with second and fourth ventrite of the same width.
Collecting information
Specimens were collected with light trap.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CEMT
- Event date
- 2010-11-06
- Verbatim event date
- 2010-11-06/07
- Scientific name authorship
- CEMT
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Ataeniopsis
- Species
- parallelus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ataeniopsis parallelus (Petrovitz, 1961) sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026
References
- Petrovitz R. 1961 b. Neue und verkannte Aphodiinae aus allen Erdteilen (Col. Scarab). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 12 (1): 99-135.
- Chalumeau F. 1992. Eupariini du nouveau monde: un mise au point (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) (1 re partie). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N. S.) 9 (3): 189-206.
- Stebnicka Z. T. 2003 b. Revision and hypothetical phylogenetic analysis of the species of the New World genus Ataeniopsis (Coleoptera: Aphodiinae Eupariini). European Journal of Entomology 100: 101-113. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2003.019