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Selviria matogrossoensis Stebnicka 1999

  • 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

Selviria matogrossoensis Stebnicka, 1999

Figs 17B, 54A

Selviria matogrossoensis Stebnicka, 1999a: 288 289.

Diagnosis

Length 4.8 5.0 mm. Head wide with finely punctate; clypeus emarginate, margin upturned. Pronotum laterally explanate; fringed by spatulate setae; posterior angles not distinctly explanate. Elytra with humeral teeth present, interstriae flat; lateral and posterior margins explanate. Meso- and metatibiae slim, somewhat circular in a cross section, almost completely glabrous, except for a few sparse setae concentrated in apical third.

Type material examined

Paratype

BRAZIL • 1 spec.; “[white paper, printed] Br-Ms- Três Lagoas / Horto Rio Verde / Três Lagoas Agroflorestal / Black light trap / Eucalyptus grandis stand / Flechtmann, C.A.H. Col/ [hand writen to the side] 19/X/1993. // [red paper, printed] Types genus/ Selviria / / Dt. Z. Stebnicka. // [yellow paper, printed] Selviria / matogrossoensis / D.t.Z.Stebnicka.”; CEMT.

Other material examined

BRAZIL Mato Grosso do Sul • 1 spec.; Selvíria, UNESP farm; 21 Nov. 1993; C.A.H. Flechtmann leg.; Brachiaria decumbens pasture; black light trap; CEMT. Minas Gerais • 1 spec.; Ijaci, Fazenda FAEPE; Nov. 2002; J. Louzada leg.; light; CEMT.

Sexual dimorphism

Males with apical spur of protibiae inwardly curved.

Collecting information

Specimens were collected in pasture regions with black light traps and in nests of Solenopsis invicta Buren, 1972 (Stebnicka 1999a, 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 pages 157-158, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1038.3175, http://zenodo.org/record/19369988

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEMT
Event date
1993-10-19 , 1993-11-21
Verbatim event date
1993-10-19 , 1993-11-21
Scientific name authorship
Stebnicka
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Selviria
Species
matogrossoensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Selviria matogrossoensis Stebnicka, 1999 sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026

References

  • Stebnicka Z. T. 1999 a. Neotropical Eupariini: New and little known genera and species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Aphodiinae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 106: 285-300. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.80079
  • 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