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Phanaeus arletteae Arnaud 2018

  • 1. Red de Ecoetología, Instituto de Ecología, A. C. Carretera antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz 91073, Mexico.

Description

Phanaeus arletteae Arnaud, 2018

Figs 17, 18A, 19A

Phanaeus (Notiophanaeus) arletteae Arnaud, 2018: 4.

Phanaeus blanchardi ab. viridicollis (unavailable infrasubspecific name) – Olsoufieff 1924: 149. — Edmonds 1994: 443. — Arnaud 2002b: 98. — Edmonds & Zídek 2012: 13 (as an unavailable infrasubspecific name referable to P. pyrois).

Phanaeus (Phanaeus) blanchardi ab. viridicollis – Martínez & Pereira 1967: 68 (as synonym of P. funereus) (unavailable infrasubspecific name).

Phanaeus (Notiophanaeus) viridicollis – Arnaud 2002b: 98–99 (as a new combination for P. blanchardi ab. viridicollis) (unavailable infrasubspecific name). — Edmonds & Zídek 2012: 13 (as an unavailable infrasubspecific name referable to P. pyrois).

Phanaeus viridicollis – Krajcik 2006: 153. — Edmonds & Zídek 2012: 1, 6 (as an unavailable infrasubspecific name referable to P. pyrois).

Non Phanaeus pyrois (error) – Moctezuma & Halffter 2017: 55 (in part). — Moctezuma et al. 2017: 114, 130 (in part).

Phanaeus (Notiophanaeus) arletteae Chamorro et al. 2018: 97; 2019: 213, pl. 46a.

Phanaeus arletteae – Kohlmann et al. 2018: 83, 88.

Type material

Holotype (revised from photograph from the original description)

ECUADOR • ♂, Arnaud 2018: 4, pl. 1, fig. a; Guayas, Kilometric point 18 Balzar-Quevedo Road; CPFA.

Type locality

Ecuador, Guayas, Kilometric point 18 Balzar-Quevedo Road.

Distribution

Pacific slope of the Andes, south-central Ecuador (Fig. 17).

Remarks

The genital morphology of this species remains unknown. We were not able to personally revise specimens of Phanaeus arletteae. Nevertheless, the external morphology of the holotype and a female paratype were illustrated by Arnaud (2018). We consider that the diagnostic characters provided by Arnaud (2018) are adequate to separate this species from closely related taxa. The commentaries of previous authors confirmed the validity of this species (Martínez & Pereira 1967; Edmonds 1994; Arnaud 2002b; Edmonds & Zídek 2012). Particularly, the morphology of the pronotum of the female is unique within the P. endymion species group.

Notes

Published as part of Moctezuma, Victor & Halffter, Gonzalo, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Phanaeus endymion species group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), with the descriptions of five new species, pp. 1-71 in European Journal of Taxonomy 747 on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.747.1333, http://zenodo.org/record/4836744

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CPFA
Scientific name authorship
Arnaud
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Phanaeus
Species
arletteae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phanaeus arletteae Arnaud, 2018 sec. Moctezuma & Halffter, 2021

References

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  • Olsoufieff G. d'. 1924. Les Phanaeides (Coleoptera-Lamellicornia). Famille Scarabaeidae - Tr. Coprini. Insecta, Revue illustree d'Entomologique 13: 4 - 172.
  • Edmonds W. D. 1994. Revision of Phanaeus Macleay, a New World genus of Scarabaeinae dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 443: 1 - 105.
  • Arnaud P. 2002 b. Phanaeini. Dendropaemon, Tetramereia, Homalotarsus, Megatharsis, Diabroctis, Coprophanaeus, Oxysternon, Phanaeus, Sulcophanaeus. Hillside Books, Canterbury.
  • Edmonds W. D. & Zidek J. 2012. Taxonomy of Phanaeus revisited: Revised keys to and comments on species of the New World dung beetle genus Phanaeus Macleay, 1819 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Phanaeini). Insecta Mundi 274: 1 - 108.
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  • Moctezuma V. & Halffter G. 2017. A new species of Phanaeus Macleay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Los Chimalapas, Oaxaca, Mexico. The Coleopterists Bulletin 71: 47 - 56. https: // doi. org / 10.1649 / 0010 - 065 X- 71.1.47
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  • Kohlmann B., Arriaga-Jimenez A. & Ros M. 2018. Dung beetle vicariant speciation in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, with a description of a new species of Phanaeus (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae, Scarabaeidae). ZooKeys 743: 67 - 93. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 743.23029