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Odontolytes minutus CEMT

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

Odontolytes minutus (Petrovitz, 1973)

Figs 22C, 50B

Euparia minuta Petrovitz, 1973: 188.

Phalangochaeta minuta – Chalumeau & Howden 1984: 87.

Auperia minuta – Stebnicka 2002: 765.

Odontolytes minutus – Krell et al. 2011: 175.

Diagnosis

Length 3.8 – 4.0 mm. Body elongate, reddish brown. Head punctate; punctures elongate anteriorly to frontoclypeal suture; clypeus sinuate. Pronotum coarsely punctate, punctures larger and confluent near lateral margins; anterior angles explanate. Scutellum foveate. Proventral process glossy acuminate. Mesoventrite with large callosity.

Material examined

BRAZIL – Mato Grosso do Sul • 8 specs; Selvíria; 30 Apr.–1 Dec. 2011; Caterino and Tischechkin leg.; Cerradão; FIT; CEMT. – Mato Grosso • 1 spec.; Cotriguaçu, Fazenda São Nicolau; 8–14 Apr. 2011; Peres-Filho leg.; light trap; CEMT. – Rondônia • 1 spec.; 62 km SW of Ariquemes, nr Fazenda Rancho Grande; 28 Oct. 1996; K.M.V. Vulinec leg.; CEMT. – São Paulo • 1 spec.; Descalvado, Fazenda Itaunas; 22 Sep. 2005; N.W. Perioto leg.; pitfall; CEMT • 1 spec.; same data as for preceding; 6 Oct. 2005; N.W. Perioto leg.; forest + Citrus plantation; pitfall; CEMT.

Sexual dimorphism

Males with fifth abdominal ventrite shorter than that of female and longer disc of pygidium.

Collecting information

Specimens were collected in leaf litter in the Amazon rainforest, in cerradão forest with flight intercept trap. Specimens were also collected with light and pitfall traps.

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 139, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1038.3175, http://zenodo.org/record/19369988

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038D87BEFF2EFF79FDEAFE95FC54FABF

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.19370047 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.19370118 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1038.3175 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/19369988 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB4FFC6FFA4FFF3FFDCFF9DFFF4FFB3 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/09FBBB01-5A0B-4329-A627-3946B9814D44 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038D87BEFF2EFF79FDEAFE95FC54FABF (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/318350156 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314725/taxon/038D87BEFF2EFF79FDEAFE95FC54FABF.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEMT
Event date
1996-10-28 , 2005-09-22 , 2005-10-06 , 2011-04-08 , 2011-04-30
Verbatim event date
1996-10-28 , 2005-09-22 , 2005-10-06 , 2011-04-08/14 , 2011-04-30/12-01
Scientific name authorship
CEMT
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Odontolytes
Species
minutus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Odontolytes minutus (Petrovitz, 1973) sec. Gama, Skelley & Vaz-De-Mello, 2026

References

  • Petrovitz R. 1973. Neue Aphodiinae, Hybosorinae und Acanthocerinae aus der Neotropischen Region (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Studia Entomologica 16 (1 - 4): 141-202.
  • Chalumeau F. & Howden H. 1984. Le genre Euparia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Aphodiinae) Saint- Fargeay & Serville, 1828. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft 57: 85-94.
  • Stebnicka Z. T. 2002. The New World Eupariini: Revision of the genus Auperia Chevrolat, 1864 (= Phalangochaeta Martinez, 1952) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 109: 741-775. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.79568
  • Krell F. T., Dellacasa G. & Dellacasa M. 2011. Auperia Jacquelin-Duval is a Junior Synonym of Euparia Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau and Serville and Odontolytes Kozhantshikov is the Valid Name for Auperia sensu Stebnicka (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 65 (2): 173-176. https://doi.org/10.1649/072.065.0217