Pucaya Ohaus 1910
Description
Pucaya Ohaus, 1910
Pucaya Ohaus 1919: 675. Type species: Pucaya castanea Ohaus 1910: 675.
Diagnosis. Pucaya can be differentiated from other genera of Pentodontini by the head with two large, horn-shaped tubercles; trapezoidal clypeus; pronotum with two tumescences; eye canthus with a few erect setae; and spiculum gastrale with base shorter than branches. Arrow (1911) indicated that P. nodicollis should be included in this genus by coloration and clypeal shape. However, Pucaya can be differentiated by having a larger size, prominent frontal tubercles, and large pronotal tumescences.
Distribution. The genus contains two validated species, all of which are in Colombia (Endrödi 1985) and Ecuador (Ratcliffe 2003), and only one (Pucaya castanea) occurs in Central America (Ratcliffe 2003).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Dynastidae
- Genus
- Pucaya
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Ohaus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pucaya Ohaus, 1910 sec. López-García, Gasca-Álvarez & Amat-García, 2015
References
- Ohaus, F. (1910) Neue sudamericanische Dynastiden (Col.) Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1910, 671 - 690.
- Arrow, G. J. (1911) Notes on the coleopterous subfamily Dynastinae, with description of new genera and species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 8, volume 8, 151 - 176.
- Endrodi, S. (1985) The Dynastinae of the World. Dr W. Junk, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 800 p.
- Ratcliffe, B. C. (2003) The Dynastinae scarab beetles of Costa Rica and Panama. Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum, 16, 1 - 506.