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Issue: Vol. 1137 No. 1: 2 Mar. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-03-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1137.1.2
Page range: 37–52
Abstract views: 66
PDF downloaded: 5

New species and a new subgenus of South American Neoathyreus Howden and Martínez (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Athyreini)

Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443, Station “D”, Ottawa, ON. K1P 6P4, Canada
Coleoptera South America Geotrupidae Neoathyreus new subgenus new species

Abstract

Five new species of South American Neoathyreus Howden and Martínez are described and figured, these include: N. julietae, n. sp. from Bolivia; N. antennatus, n. sp. from Bolivia; N. moraguesi, n. sp. from Brazil; and N. fallolobus, n. sp. from Peru. A fifth species is placed in the new subgenus, Mesoathyreus, of Neoathyreus with N. (M.) guyanensis, n. sp. from French Guiana, as its type species.

References

  1. Howden, H.F. (1985) A revision of the South American species in the genus Neoathyreus Howden and Martínez (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Geotrupinae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 21, 1–95.

    Howden, H.F. & Martínez, A. (1963) The new tribe Athyreini and its included genera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Geotrupinae). The Canadian Entomologist, 95, 345–352.