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Manonychus robustus Pacheco & Monné & Vaz-De-Mello & Ahrens 2020, new combination

  • 1. thay. lpacheco @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9503 - 7751 & mlmonne 2 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2103 - 4878
  • 2. Laboratório de Scarabaeoidologia, Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil. & vazdemello @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9697 - 320 X
  • 3. Centre of Taxonomy and Evolutionary Research, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany. & ahrens. dirk _ col @ gmx. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3524 - 7153 & thay. lpacheco @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9503 - 7751 & mlmonne 2 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2103 - 4878

Description

Manonychus robustus (Burmeister, 1855), new combination

Astaena robusta Burmeister, 1855: 127.

Type material examined. Lectotype of Astaena robusta, ♀, here designated: “ robusta Br. Bras. Pryd. / ♀ / A. robusta Burm. / Zool. Inst. Halle / Type Astaena robusta G. Frey 19 Bur. / Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Zentralmagazin Naturw. Sammlungen 18/01 05.12.2019 / Lectotype ♀ Astaena robusta Burmeister, 1855 det. T. Pacheco” (MLUH). Paralectotype of Astaena robusta, 1 ♀: “Zool. Inst. Halle / Type Astaena robusta G. Frey 19 Bur. / MartinLuther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Zentralmagazin Naturw. Sammlungen 18/01 05.12.2019 / Paralectotype ♀ Astaena robusta Burmeister, 1855 det. T. Pacheco” (MLUH).

Remarks. The exact identity of this species remains so far uncertain since both syntypes are female specimens. Given the labrum beneath clypeus, and metatibial spines disposal below and above the tarsal articulation, the species must be placed into Sericoidini (Smith 2008). The genus assignment of this species to Manonychus Moser, 1919 is based on the galea with outer margin lobed, elytra almost smooth, protarsomeres and mesotarsomeres with pads, and metacoxae length equal to ventrite II (see Costa et al. 2020). So far, eight species are known for Manonychus (Evans & Smith 2009; Cherman et al. 2016). Recently a new genus has been erected from one of those species (plus two other new discovered taxa), Ovomanonychus Costa, Cherman & Iannuzzi, 2020, which have clearly striped elytra (Costa et al. 2020). A revision of the genus Manonychus is currently in progress by other authors (see Costa et al. 2020).

Notes

Published as part of Pacheco, Thaynara L., Monné, Marcela L., Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z. & Ahrens, Dirk, 2020, Notes on the taxonomy of some " Astaena " species described by Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae), pp. 143-145 in Zootaxa 4885 (1) on page 144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/4296307

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
T, MLUH
Event date
2019-05-12
Verbatim event date
2019-05-12
Scientific name authorship
Pacheco & Monné & Vaz-De-Mello & Ahrens
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Melolonthidae
Genus
Manonychus
Species
robustus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Type status
lectotype , paralectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Manonychus robustus (Burmeister, 1855) sec. Pacheco, Monné, Vaz-De-Mello & Ahrens, 2020

References

  • Burmeister, H. (1855) Handbuch der Entomologie. Vierter Band. Besondere Entomologie. Fortsetzung. 2. Abteilung, Coleop- tera Lamellicornia Phyllophaga chaenochela. T. C. F. Enslin, Berlin, x + 569 pp.
  • Smith, A. B. T. (2008) South American Melolonthinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) classification and nomenclature: some problems and solutions. Insecta Mundi, 60, 1 - 28.
  • Moser, J. (1919) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Melolonthiden X. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 80, 330 - 364.
  • Costa, C. F., Cherman, M. A. & Iannuzzi, L. (2020) Ovomanonychus, a new genus of South American Sericoidini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Zootaxa, 4759 (1), 65 - 76. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4759.1.4
  • Evans, A. V. & Smith, A. B. T. (2009) An electronic checklist of the New World chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Available from: http: // unsm-ento. unl. edu / SSSA / nwmelos. htm (accessed 16 December 2019)
  • Cherman, M. A., Moron, M. A. & Almeida, L. M. (2016) Phylogenetic relationships within Diplotaxini Kirby (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Melolonthinae) with emphasis on Liogenys Guerin-Meneville. Systematic Entomology, 41, 744 - 770. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / syen. 12188