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Saprositellus denticulatus 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
Saprositellus denticulatus Balthasar, 1967
Figs 27B, 55A
Saprositellus denticulatus Balthasar, 1967: 138.
Diagnosis
Length 2.8 – 3.0 mm. Head with coarse punctures; clypeus with angles lateral to emarginate area with six to seven denticle. Pronotum coarsely and densely punctate; without posterior marginal line. Elytra with small humeral tooth; striae coarsely punctured as wide as interstriae; interstriae convex. Posterior margin of meso- and metafemora lobed medially.
Material examined
BRAZIL – Amazonas • 1 spec.; Coari, Rio Urucu; 4°55′53″ S, 65°18′13″ W; 25 Feb.–10 Mar. 1995; Bührnheim et al. leg.; RUC-36; CEMT.
Sexual dimorphism
Unknown.
Collecting information
Specimens were collected in the Amazon forest.
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 162-163, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1038.3175, http://zenodo.org/record/19369988
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CEMT
- Event date
- 1995-02-25
- Verbatim event date
- 1995-02-25/03-10
- Scientific name authorship
- Balthasar
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Saprositellus
- Species
- denticulatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Saprositellus denticulatus 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.