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Dendropaemon (Enicotarsus) Laporte 1831

Description

Dendropaemon (Enicotarsus) Laporte, 1831

Enicotarsus Laporte 1831, Mag. Zool. 1: pl. 35 (original description)

Enicotarsus: Brullé 1837, In: Hist. Nat. Ins.: 302 (diagnosis)

Enicotarsus: Castelnau 1840, Hist. Nat. Ins. 2: 83 (diagnosis)

Enicotarsus: Guérin-Méneville 1844, Icon. Règ. anim. Cuv. III: 80 (comment) Enicotarsus: Agassiz 1846, Nom. Zool.: 138 (mention)

Enicotarsus: Lacordaire 1856, Hist. Nat. Ins. III: 102 (mentioned as synonym) Enicotarsus: Burmeister 1861, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 5: 56 (comment)

Enicotarsus: Harold 1869, Cat. Col. IV: 1020 (mentioned as synonym) Enicotarsus: Gillet 1911, Col. Cat. 38: 88 (mentioned as synonym)

Enicotarsus: Olsoufieff 1924, Insecta 13: 159 (mentioned as synonym) Enicotarsus: Blackwelder 1944, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 185: 210 (mentioned as synonym) Enicotarsus: Edmonds 1972, Univ. Kansas Sc. Bull. 49: 850 (mentioned as synonym) Enicotarsus: Branco 1991, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (N.S.) 27: 266 (comment) Enicotarsus: Arnaud 2002, Col. Monde 28: 14 (mentioned as synonym)

Type species: Enicotarsus viridipennis Laporte, 1831; monotypy.

Diagnosis. Size moderate. Entire body except elytra black; elytra with metallic sheen. Body strongly compressed dorsoventrally. Clypeal edge slightly but distinctly emarginate on external side of each clypeal tooth; clypeal teeth more or less triangular. Pronotum only minutely punctate on disc. Elytral base lacking margin. Meso and metatarsi three segmented, first segment elongate, more than three times as long as wide at apex, last segment spiniform, lacing setae apically.

Notes

Published as part of François Génier & Patrick Arnaud, 2016, Dendropaemon Perty, 1830: taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny of the morphologically most derived phanaeine genus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae, Phanaeini) in Zootaxa 4099 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4099.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/268274

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Laporte
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Dendropaemon
Taxon rank
subGenus
Taxonomic concept label
Dendropaemon (Enicotarsus) Laporte, 1831 sec. Génier & Arnaud, 2016

References

  • Laporte, F. L. de (1831) (Description of Enicotarsus and Enicotarsus viridipennis). Magazin de Zoologie, 1 (2), pl. 35.
  • Brulle, A. (1837) Histoire naturelle des insectes, comprenant leur classification, leurs moeurs, et la description des especes. In: Audouin, J. V. & Brulle, G. A. (Eds.), Histoire naturelle des insectes, traitant de leur organisation et de leurs moeurs en general, Par M. V. Audouin, et comprenant leur classification et la description des especes, Par M. A. Brulle. Tome VI. Coleopteres III. F. D. Pillot, Paris, 448 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 34228
  • Castelnau, M. Le Conte de (1840) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coleopteres. Tome deuxieme. Histoire Naturelle des animaux articulees, crustaces, arachnides, myriapode et insectes. Tome troisieme, P. Dumeril, Paris, 564 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 47104
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  • Branco, T. (1991) Revision des genres du " groupe " Stiptopodius: Les genres Stiptopodius Harold et Stiptotarsus Branco (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, Nouvelle Serie, 27 (3), 265 - 285.
  • Arnaud, P. (2002) Phanaeini, Dendropaemon, Tetramereia, Homalotarsus, Megatharsis, Diabroctis, Coprophanaeus, Oxysternon, Phanaeus, Sulcophanaeus. Les Coleopteres du Monde, 28. Hillside Books, Canterbury, 151 pp.