Oedanomerus squamosus Lacroix 2005
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Description
Oedanomerus squamosus Lacroix, 2005 (Figs. 1C, 2C, 3C, 4C, 4G, 5G)
Type material studied. Holotype: “ HOLOTYPE [red label, printed] | Botswana | Shakawe—Camp | 22.-24. ii. 1958 |
leg. U. Göllner [blue label, printed] || Oedanomerus | squamosus n. sp. [handwritten] | M. LACROIX det. 2005 [white
label, printed]” deposited in Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Berlin, Germany. Other material studied. Namibia: Kavango region: 130 km E Rundu, 1030 m, 13–31.xii. 2013, S. Murzin, two
males deposited in Národní muzeum Praha, Czech Republic, 22 males deposited in Richard Sehnal collection, Velenice,
Czech Republic.
Note. To date, the species has been known only from the holotype. Specimens from Kavango Region near Rundu (Fig. 4G) represent the only additional material collected outside of the type locality. The species is recorded here for the first time from Namibia. Variability in males (between holotype and males from Kavango): body length 5.1–8.2 mm (holotype = 8.0), slightly variable in dorsal punctation density and length and distribution of scales. Color as in holotype. Detailed photographs are here presented for the first time.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2013-12-13
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Oedanomerus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Lacroix
- Species
- squamosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-12-13/31
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oedanomerus squamosus Lacroix, 2005 sec. Sehnal, 2018
References
- Lacroix, M. (2005) Contribution a la connaissance des Pachydeminae afrotropicains, V. Nouvelles especes de Oedanomerus Waterhouse (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae). Coleopt e res, 11, 51 - 65.