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Iarupea goias Stebnicka 2007

  • 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

Iarupea goias Stebnicka, 2007

Figs 14D, 45B

Iarupea goias Stebnicka, 2007a: 579 581.

Diagnosis

Length 5.0 mm. Body dark reddish brown. Pronotum without punctures, instead covered with small tubercles; posterior furrow not strigate; some specimens present the posterior margin of pronotum, before furrow, medially acuminate.

Material examined

BRAZIL Maranhão • 2 specs; Carolina, Fazenda Cincorá; 22 Oct. 2009; F. Lima-de-Oliveira, R.O. Souza, M.B. Aguiar Neto leg.; light; CEMT. Minas Gerais • 1 spec.; Cordisburgo; Jan. 1994; F.Z. Vaz de Mello leg.; CEMT.

Sexual dimorphism

Males unknown, but based on the other species of the genus, males probably have the apical spur of protibiae strongly arched when compared with the females.

Collecting information

Specimens were collected with light traps and in galleries of nests of Atta sp. (Stebnicka 2007a).

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 111, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1038.3175, http://zenodo.org/record/19369988

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEMT
Event date
2009-10-22
Verbatim event date
2009-10-22
Scientific name authorship
Stebnicka
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Iarupea
Species
goias
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Iarupea goias Stebnicka, 2007 sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026

References

  • Stebnicka Z. T. 2007 a. New species of Iarupea Martinez and morphological specializations among related taxa associated with ants and termites (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Eupariini). Revue suisse de Zoologie 114: 573-590. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.80404