Published June 30, 2012 | Version v1
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Copris yamamotoi Tesar 1937

  • 1. Biology Centre ASCR, Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 31, CZ- 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; e-mail: bezdek @ entu. cas. cz
  • 2. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: jiri _ hajek @ nm. cz

Description

Copris yamamotoi Tesař, 1937

Copris Yamamotoi Tesař, 1937: 101.

Two syntypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. V. Balthasar):

SYNTYPE (J): ‘ Iwate 1935 / Japan / H. Yamamoto [p] // Copris / yamamoti J / m. n. [hw] Det. Tesař [p] // Typus [p, red label]’.

SYNTYPE (♀): ‘Matuo, Iwateken / Japan / Coll. Tesař [p] // Copris / ♀ yamamoti / m. n. [hw] Det. Tesař [p] // Typus [p, red label]’.

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Copris (Sinocopris) pecuarius Lewis, 1884, see NAKANE & TSUKAMOTO (1955) and OCHI et al. (2009).

Remark. Although the species-group name is spelled as ‘ yamamoti ’ on Tesař’ s identification label, it was published under the species-group name ‘ yamamotoi ’.

Notes

Published as part of Bezděk, Aleš, Hájek, Jiří & Ascr, Biology Centre, 2012, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 297-334 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1) on page 311, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5330401

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Tesar
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Copris
Species
yamamotoi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Copris yamamotoi Tesar, 1937 sec. Bezděk, Hájek & Ascr, 2012

References

  • TESAR Z. 1937: Copris Yamamotoi sp. n. Casopis Ceskoslovenske Spolecnosti Entomologicke 34: 101 (in Czech and German).
  • NAKANE T. & TSUKAMOTO K. 1955: On the genus Copris Geoffroy in Japan. Akitu 4: 44 - 50 (in Japanese, English summary).
  • OCHI T., KON M. & BAI M. 2009: Three new species of Copris (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from China, with description of a new subgenus. Entomological Review of Japan 64: 207 - 216.