Leiopsammodius globatus
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
Leiopsammodius globatus (Petrovitz, 1972)
Fig. 55B
Psammodius globatus Petrovitz, 1972: 163–164.
Leiopsammodius globatus – Rakovic 1990: 7.
Diagnosis
Length 3.5 mm. Body piceous. Clypeus emarginate; gena notched at genal suture. Pronotum without transverse furrows; lateral margins without fringe of setae. Elytra without humeral tooth; striae strongly impressed. Protibiae with posterior outer teeth reduced, the middle teeth normally developed, the apical tooth extremely large, almost straight forward.
Sexual dimorphism
Unknown.
Collecting information
No information available in literature.
Remarks
This species was originally described from Serra de Paranapiacaba, São Paulo State, Brazil (Petrovitz 1972). Specimens unavailable for analysis, thus diagnosis and positioning in the dichotomous key were based on the available literature.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Petrovitz
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Leiopsammodius
- Species
- globatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leiopsammodius globatus (Petrovitz, 1972) sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026
References
- Petrovitz R. 1972. Neue laparostikte Scarabaeidaen aus der Orientalischen and Neotropischen Region. Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana 51: 161-168.
- Rakovic M. 1990. Review of the genus Leiopsammodius on the world basis with a key to species from the Western Hemisphere and description of a new species. Annotationes Zoologicae et Botanicae 197: 1-18.