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Odontopsammodius insulcatus

  • 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

Odontopsammodius insulcatus (Schmidt, 1916)

Fig. 56A

Psammodius insulcatus Schmidt, 1916: 102.

Leiopsammodius insulcatus – Rakovic 1990: 8.

Odontopsammodius insulcatus – Gordon & Pittino 1992: 266.

Diagnosis

Length 3.75 mm. Body piceous. Head granulate; frons smooth. Pronotum quite densely punctured; punctures smaller near anterior margin and sides; sides crenate, fringed with setae; posteriorly without marginal line. Elytra with interstriae smooth, flat, striae fine; margins not fimbriate.

Sexual dimorphism

Unknown.

Collecting information

No information available in literature.

Remarks

This species was originally described from Blumenau, Santa Catarina State, Brazil. Specimens unavailable for analysis, diagnosis and positioning in the dichotomous key were based on the available literature (Gordon & Pittino 1992).

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

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References

  • Schmidt A. 1916. Namenanderungen und Beschreibung neuer Aphodiinen (Col). Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 82 A (1): 95-116. Available from https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13313529 [accessed 20 Apr. 2024].
  • 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.
  • Gordon R. D. & Pittino R. 1992. Current status of the American genera and species of Psammodiini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 46 (3): 260-273.