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Oedanomerus squamosus Lacroix 2005

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.

Notes

Published as part of Sehnal, Richard, 2018, Two new Oedanomerus species from Zimbabwe (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Tanyproctini), pp. 593-600 in Zootaxa 4377 (4) on pages 599-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4377.4.10, http://zenodo.org/record/1165782

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Additional details

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.