Saprositellus Balthasar 1967
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 Saprositellus Balthasar, 1967
Diagnosis
Length 2.8 – 3.0 mm. Body elongate, cylindrical, convex, piceous. Head punctate, with wrinkled area just after anterior margin; clypeal margin medially thickened and acuminate, downwardly bent; margin sinuate, lateral angles with group of denticles. Pronotum tumid anteriorly, punctate, with shallow and short posteromedial longitudinal furrow and two lateral fovea; sides sharply declined; lateral margin ending in obtuse teeth. Elytra with striae coarsely punctured; interstriae convex to carinate.
Remarks
Saprositellus has five recognized species. This genus has been recorded from Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama and Peru (Stebnicka 2003d; Skelley 2007b). For a key to all its species see Skelley (2007b).
Key to species of Saprositellus from Brazil (adapted from Skelley 2007b) (Portuguese version in Supp. file 1)
1. Interstriae convex (Fig. 27B). Pronotum without posterior marginal line ....................................... ..................................................................................... S. denticulatus Balthasar, 1967 (Fig. 27B)
– Interstriae carinate (Fig. 27A). Pronotum with posterior marginal line .......................................... ...................................................................................... S. ariquemes Stebnicka, 2003 (Fig. 27A)
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Balthasar
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Saprositellus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Saprositellus Balthasar, 1967 sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026
References
- Balthasar V. 1967. Neue Arten der Familie Aphodiidae (Coleoptera) 128. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Scarabaeoidea. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 64: 122-139.
- Stebnicka Z. T. 2003 d. The genus Saprositellus Balthasar, with descriptions of three new neotropical species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Odontolochini). The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (4): 451-457. https://doi.org/10.1649/582
- Skelley P. E. 2007 b. New South American taxa of Odontolochini Stebnicka and Howden (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Insecta Mundi 22: 1-15.