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Leiopsammodius santaremi

  • 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 santaremi (Cartwright, 1955)

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Psammodius santaremi Cartwright, 1955: 438.

Leiopsammodius santaremi – Rakovic 1990: 11.

Diagnosis

Length 2.5 mm. Body ferruginous. Head emarginate; frons with three to four coarse punctures on each side near frontoclypeal. Pronotum with three transverse furrows. Elytra humeral region finely denticulate; lateral margin not fringed; striae wide, deep with moderate punctures, strongly crenate interstriae.

Sexual dimorphism

Unknown.

Collecting information

No information available in literature.

Remarks

This species was originally described from Santarém, Pará, Brazil (Cartwright 1955). Specimens unavailable for analysis, thus diagnosis and positioning in the dichotomous key were based on the available literature.

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 169-171, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1038.3175, http://zenodo.org/record/19369988

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References

  • Cartwright O. L. 1955. Scarab beetles of the genus Psammodius in the Western Hemisphere. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 104 (3344): 413-462. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.104-3344.413
  • 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.
  • Rakovic M., Mencl L. & Kral D. 2020 b. Contributions to knoledge of Psammodiini from the Western Hemisphere 2. Two new species of Platytomus from the South-American Continent (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Folia Heyrovskyana 28 A (1): 91-102.