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Dendropaemon (Paradendropaemon) Edmonds 1972

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Dendropaemon (Paradendropaemon) Edmonds, 1972

Dendropaemon (Paradendropaemon) Edmonds 1972, Univ. Kansas Sc. Bull. 49: 849 (original description) Dendropaemon (Paradendropaemon): Vaz-de-Mello 2000, Hac. Proy. CYTED: 192 (checklist)

Dendropaemon (Paradendropaemon): Arnaud 2002, Col. Monde 28: 14 (monograph)

Dendropaemon (Paradendropaemon): Vaz-de-Mello & Génier 2009, Col. Bull. 63: 364 (biology)

Type species: Dendropaemon ganglbaueri Felsche, 1909, original designation.

Diagnosis. Size moderate to large. Habitus oval in dorsal view; lacking metallic sheen on head, pronotum and elytra. Body convex dorsally. Clypeal edge emarginate on external side of each clypeal tooth; clypeal teeth triangular. Pronotum with moderate punctures on disc, punctures larger and forming rugulae anteriorly; anterior margin unmodified lateral to eyes; lateral fossae rounded, simple. Elytral base lacking margin. Meso and metatarsi dissimilar in shape, two segmented, metatarsal first segment more than three times as long as wide at apex, last segment cylindrical, with 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 62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4099.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/268274

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References

  • Edmonds, W. D. (1972) Comparative Skeletal Morphology, Systematics and Evolution of the Phanaeine Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 49 (11), 731 - 874.
  • Arnaud, P. (2002) Phanaeini, Dendropaemon, Tetramereia, Homalotarsus, Megatharsis, Diabroctis, Coprophanaeus, Oxysternon, Phanaeus, Sulcophanaeus. Les Coleopteres du Monde, 28. Hillside Books, Canterbury, 151 pp.
  • Felsche, C. (1909) Neue und alte coprophage Scarabaeiden. (Col.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1909 (6), 751 - 765. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 48019090608