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Scarabaeus (Scarabaeolus) gracai Ferreira 1952
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Description
S. (Scarabaeolus) gracai Ferreira, 1952b
Scarabaeus gracai Ferreira 1952b: 19, 24, pl. 1, fig. 1, 3, 6, 7, 9. Ferreira 1953b: 387, 430, pl. 11.207–208; zur Strassen 1967: 138; Ferreira 1953b: 387, pl. 11, fig. 207–208; 1968a: 7; 1968b: 28, 32, pl. 6; 1972: 36, 40, pl. 9.2; Zidek and Pokorný 2004: 14; Deschodt et al. 2015: 521, 524.
HT—MHNM (TMSA), from Mozambique: Inhambane Province, Massinga. The type repository was given by Ferreira (op. cit.) as the MHNM (formerly Museu Dr. Álvaro de Castro) in Maputo, Mozambique, but the type is now on permanent loan to TMSA. s.–sw. Mozambique (Inhambane and Gaza provinces), ne. RSA (n. Transvaal: Kruger National Park).
Length 8.5– 11 mm.
Notes
Published as part of Zidek, Jiri & Pokorný, Svatopluk, 2018, New species of the Scarabaeus subgenus Scarabaeolus Balthasar, with a review of the subgenus (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Scarabaeini), pp. 1-35 in Insecta Mundi 611 on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3726987
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- TMSA, MHNM
- Scientific name authorship
- Ferreira
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Scarabaeus
- Species
- gracai
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- type
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scarabaeus (Scarabaeolus) gracai Ferreira, 1952 sec. Zidek & Pokorný, 2018
References
- Ferreira, M. C. 1952 b. Duas especies novas de Scarabaeus da Africa do Sul. Boleti Sociedade de Estudos da Provincia de Mocambique 22 (75): 19 - 24.
- Ferreira, M. C. 1953 b. Monografia dos escarabideos da Africa do Sul. Tribo Scarabaeini. II Parte-Sub- tribo Scarabaeina. No. 1 - Genero Scarabaeus Lin. Revista de Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade de Lisboa (2 C) 3 (2): 379 - 446, 11 pl.
- zur Strassen, R. 1967. Arten-Ubersicht der Gattung Scarabaeus Linnaeus (Scarabaeidae) mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der athiopischen Formen. Entomologische Blatter 63 (3): 129 - 173.
- Zidek, J., and S. Pokorny. 2004. Checklist of the genus Scarabaeus Linne (Scarabaeinae: Scarabaeini). Animma. X no. 5: 1 - 30.
- Deschodt, C. M., A. L. V. Davis, and C. H. Scholtz. 2015. Status changes, new synonymies, key and descriptions of seven new species in the subgenus Scarabaeus (Scarabaeolus) Balthasar 1965 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Zootaxa 3931 (4): 505 - 527.