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Issue: Vol. 4300 No. 1: 1 Aug. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.1.9
Page range: 142–146
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of the genus Scybalocanthon (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from the Atlantic rainforest, with an identification key to the species from South America south of the Amazon basin

Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia. Av. Fernando Correa da Costa, 2367. Boa Esperança. Cuiabá MT 78060-900, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Belém. Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01. Guamá. Belém PA 66075-110, Brazil.
Coleoptera Scybalocanthon batesi sp. nov. Scarabaeinae new species taxonomic notes

Abstract

Scybalocanthon batesi sp. nov., from Bahia, Brazil is described based on external morphology. Its diagnostic characters are provided and illustrated. An identification key and new distributional data to the following non-Amazonian species from South America are provided, S. nigriceps (Harold, 1868), S. zischkai Martínez, 1949, S. korasakiae Silva, 2011 and S. batesi sp. nov.. A lectotype is designated for S. nigriceps.

 

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