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Ataenius blapoides Balthasar 1947
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
Ataenius blapoides Balthasar, 1947
Ataenius blapoides Balthasar, 1947: 51.
BRAZIL – Minas Gerais • 1 spec.; Cordisburgo, Fazenda Pontinha; Jul. 1994; De Mello leg.; CEMT.
Collecting information
Specimens were collected under logs in rainforest, and at light (Stebnicka 2001a).
Remarks
Ataenius crenator group comprises five species, two are found in Brazil (Stebnicka 2001c). A key for species of this group can be found in Stebnicka (2001c).
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 page 83, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1038.3175, http://zenodo.org/record/19369988
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CEMT
- Scientific name authorship
- Balthasar
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Ataenius
- Species
- blapoides
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ataenius blapoides Balthasar, 1947 sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026
References
- Balthasar V. 1947. De novis generis Ataenius speciebus. Acta Entomologica Musei nationalis 25 (327): 49-54.
- Stebnicka Z. T. 2001 a. A revision of the Neotropical species of Saprosites Redtenbacher, 1858 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: Eupariini). Entomologische Abhandlungen und Berichte aus dem Staatlichen Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden 59: 221-242. https://doi.org/10.3409/azc.55_2.13
- Stebnicka Z. T. 2001 c. The New World species of Ataenius Harold, 1867. I. Revision of the A. crenator group, A. nugator - group and A. perforatus - group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: Eupariini). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 44 (3): 253-283.