Termitodius Wasmann 1894
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 Termitodius Wasmann, 1894
Diagnosis
Length 3.5–4.0 mm. Body elongate, oval, posteriorly narrowed, covered with small setae, reddish brown. Head with anterior margin inflexed medially, acuminate; frons with four longitudinal costae. Pronotum with lateral margins sinuate; disc with six variably developed longitudinal carinae; peridiscal costae normally obsolete medially, visible only near anterior and posterior margin; pronotal costae always bulbous anteriorly; pronotum with two perimarginal costae. Elytra with large tubercle anterior to posterior margin and with six longitudinal carinae. Meso- and metatibia elongate, thin, not widening toward apex.
Remarks
Termitodius has four recognized species reported from Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico (Skelley et al. 2022). A key for the species was written Skelley et al. (2022).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Wasmann
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Termitodius
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Termitodius Wasmann, 1894 sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026
References
- Wasmann E. 1894. Kritisches Verzeichniss der myrmekophilen und termitophilen Arthropoden. Mit Angabe der Lebensweise und Beschreibung neuer Arten. Dames, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.122977 Westwood J. O. 1847. Description of some exotic insects belonging to the family Aphodiinae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4: 293 - 243. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1847.tb01361.x