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Phoberus nyansanus Haaf, new status
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Description
Phoberus nyansanus (Haaf) new status
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Trox nigrociliatus nyansanus Haaf, 1953: 330
Trox (Trox) nigrociliatus nyansanus: Scholtz 1980: 93; Scholtz 1982: 5 Trox (Phoberus) nigrociliatus nyansanus: Scholtz 1986: 361; Zidek 2013: 13 Phoberus nigrociliatus nyansanus: Strümpher et al. 2016: 78
Diagnosis. Phoberus nyansanus can be easily separated from other members of the group by the yellow fringes and tufts of setae on the pronotum and elytra; the other members have black setae. P. nyansanus is restricted to the lake areas of east-central Africa.
Notes
Published as part of Strümpher, Werner P. & Scholtz, Clarke H., 2017, A new brachypterous species of Phoberus MacLeay (Coleoptera: Trogidae) and status changes of species in the East African P. nigrociliatus group, pp. 292-298 in Zootaxa 4216 (3) on page 295, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.231847
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Haaf
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Trogidae
- Genus
- Phoberus
- Species
- nyansanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- stat. nov.
References
- Haaf, E. (1953) Die afrikanischen Arten der Gattung Trox F. (Col. Scarab.). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey, 4, 309 - 346.
- Scholtz, C. H. (1980) Monograph of the genus Trox F. (Coleoptera: Trogidae) of Subsaharan Africa. Cimbebasia Memoir, 4, 1 - 104.
- Scholtz, C. H. (1982) Catalogue of world Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Entomology Memoir, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa, 54, 1 - 27.
- Scholtz, C. H. (1986) Phylogeny and systematics of the Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Systematic Entomology, 11, 355 - 363.
- Zidek, J. (2013) Checklist and bibliography of the Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Insecta Mundi, 314, 1 - 38.
- Strumpher, W. P., Villet, M. H., Sole, C. L. & Scholtz, C. H. (2016) Overview and revision of the extant genera and subgenera of Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Insect Systematics and Evolution, 47, 53 - 82. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 1876312 X- 46052133