Termitodius coronatus 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
Termitodius coronatus Wasmann, 1894
Figs 27D, 58
Termitodius coronatus Wasmann, 1894: 220.
Diagnosis
Length 4.0 mm. Body with bulbous and carinate areas opaque, clypeus, elytral surface between carinae and tubercles near posterior margin, glossy. Clypeus with obsolete set of medial longitudinal costae medially. Pronotum with paramedian costae with anterior lobes elevated and circular in dorsal view, almost as big as the lobes of other pronotal costae.
Material examined
BRAZIL – Acre • 1 spec.; Rio Branco, Fazenda Catuaba; Feb. 1997; F.Z. Vaz-de-Mello leg.; CEMT.
Sexual dimorphism
Males with inner margin of mesotibia, with small preapical denticle; lateral margin sinuate between tooth and apical margin; apical fringe of setae complete.
Collecting information
Specimens have been collected in nests of Nasititermes meinerti (Wasmann, 1894) termites (Wasmann 1894).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CEMT
- Scientific name authorship
- Wasmann
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Termitodius
- Species
- coronatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Termitodius coronatus 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