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Saprolochus Stebnicka & Galante 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

Genus Saprolochus Stebnicka & Galante, 2007 (new record)

Diagnosis

Length 2.3–4.0 mm. Body elongate, convex, piceous. Head broad, with strongly gibbous medially, coarsely punctate posteriorly and with short transverse wrinkles anterior margin of clypeus; clypeus sinuate, anterior margin thickened medially, downward bent with big acuminate dentiform process. Pronotum tumid anteriorly, laterally declined and variably punctate. Elytra with humeral denticle and with interstriae weakly convex; striae shallow, with coarse punctures separated by short transverse carina. Mesoventrite with V-shaped furrow parallel to lateral margin of mesocoxa.

Remarks

Saprolochus has four recognized species reported from Bolivia, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela (Skelley 2007b; Stebnicka & Galante 2007). For a key to all its species see Skelley (2007b).

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

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References

  • Stebnicka Z. T. & Galante. 2007. New Neotropical taxa, synonymal clarifications and phylogeny of Odontolochini on the world basis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 50 B (2): 129-138. https://doi.org/10.3409/000000007783995147
  • Skelley P. E. 2007 b. New South American taxa of Odontolochini Stebnicka and Howden (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Insecta Mundi 22: 1-15.