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Issue: Vol. 4078 No. 1: 9 Feb. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-02-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.22
Page range: 245–251
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 2

Two new species of Cyclocephala (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Melolonthidae) from Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Laboratório de Taxonomia de Insetos, Department of Agronomy/Plant Protection, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Rua Manoel Medeiros, s/n, Dois Irmãos 52171–900 - Recife, PE, Brazil.
Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19030, 81581–980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19030, 81581–980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Fellows of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Coleoptera Cyclocephalini distribution Dynastinae Scarabaeidae taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of Cyclocephala constituting a new species group in the genus, Cyclocephala machadoi sp. nov. (Holotype male deposited in CERPE: Brazil, Minas Gerais State, São Gonçalo do Rio Preto municipality, Parque Estadual do Rio Preto) and C. everardoi sp. nov. (Holotype male deposited in CERPE: Brazil, Minas Gerais State, 8 km north of Cristália municipality), are here described and illustrated. The only two males known were collected with light traps and have antennal lamellae much larger than other South American species, along with large eyes and a quadrate narrow clypeal apex.

 

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