Cartwrightia Islas 1958
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 Cartwrightia Islas, 1958
Diagnosis
Length 3.0– 3.4 mm. Body elongate, surface partially covered with argillaceous coating. Head with frontoclypeal and genal suture evident; clypeus sinuate, medially with longitudinal carina; anterior margin thickened, downwardly bent and acuminate medially. Pronotum coarsely punctate, punctures scattered; lateral margin sinuate; five incomplete longitudinal carinae present on disc, medial carina bifurcate medially. Elytra with odd interstriae carinate; even interstriae flat; striae not excavate, evidenced by row of coarse punctures lateral to interstriae; posterior declivity with a single big tubercle near posterior margin. Protibia with two to three teeth, first and second teeth closer than third; first tooth positioned apically. Basal tarsomere of meso- and metatarsus as long as the following three combined.
Remarks
Cartwrightia comprises three recognized species C. islasi Cartwright, 1967, C. cartwrighti (Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala) and C. intertribalis Islas, 1958 (Mexico). For keys to all species see Cartwright (1967).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Islas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Cartwrightia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cartwrightia Islas, 1958 sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026
References
- Islas F. 1958. Un genero y especie nuevos de la subfamilia Aphodiinae en Mexico (Col Scarabaeidae). Anales del Instituto de Biologia de la Universidad Nacional de Mexico. Mexico 29: 343-348.
- Cartwright O. L. 1967. Two new species of Cartwrightia from Central and South America (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Proceeding of the United States National Museum 124 (3632): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.124-3632.1