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Phanaeus edmondsi Moctezuma, Deloya & Halffter 2019

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

Description

Phanaeus edmondsi Moctezuma, Deloya & Halffter, 2019

Figs 1C, 15, 18D, 19D

Phanaeus edmondsi Moctezuma et al., 2019: 251.

Type material

Holotype

MEXICO • ♂, Moctezuma et al. 2019: 251, figs 1–3 (revised); Oaxaca, Candelaria Loxicha, Portillo del Rayo; CNIN.

Type locality

Mexico, Oaxaca, Candelaria Loxicha, Portillo del Rayo.

Distribution

Pacific slope of the Sierra Madre del Sur, southern Oaxaca (Fig. 15).

Remarks

This species was recently described and illustrated (Moctezuma et al. 2019). To the original description of the female we add: cephalic trituberculate carina of head with carinate central tubercle, anteriorly more projected not as raised as lateral, conical tubercles; frons with superficially impressed punctures; pronotal sculpture completely smooth with superficially impressed punctures; pronotal process trituberculate

lacking concavities; central pronotal tubercle slightly more developed and projected anteriorly than lateral tubercles; posterior pronotal midline completely effaced.

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 12-13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.747.1333, http://zenodo.org/record/4836744

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CNIN
Scientific name authorship
Moctezuma, Deloya & Halffter
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Phanaeus
Species
edmondsi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Phanaeus edmondsi Moctezuma, 2019 sec. Moctezuma & Halffter, 2021

References

  • Moctezuma V., Deloya C., Sanchez-Huerta J. L. & Halffter G. 2019. A new species of the Phanaeus endymion species group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with comments on ecology and distribution. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France (N. S.) 55: 249 - 254. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00379271.2019.1577170