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Dicranocara tatasensis Deschodt & Scholtz 2007
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Description
Dicranocara tatasensis Deschodt & Scholtz, 2007.
Only recorded from the Tatasberg Mountains [28.323°S 17.241°E], Richtersveld National Park, South Africa, in close association with rock hyrax dung middens. Asingle female was collected live in the shade of boulders six months after the previous rains (C.M.D. pers. obs.).
Notes
Published as part of Deschodt, Christian M. & Davis, Adrian L. V., 2017, Transfer of three species of Namakwanus Scholtz & Howden to Versicorpus Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz or to Namaphilus gen. nov., with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 109-114 in Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History 7 (7) on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5562912
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.5562912 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFFE8E7FFFFCFFC4A72A3246EF2D645E (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Deschodt & Scholtz
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Dicranocara
- Species
- tatasensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dicranocara tatasensis &, 2007 sec. Deschodt & Davis, 2017
References
- DESCHODT, C. M., KRYGER, U. and SCHOLTZ, C. H., 2007. New taxa of relictual Canthonini dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) utilizing rock hyrax middens as refuges in south-western Africa. Insect Systematics & Evolution 38: 361 - 376.