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Issue: Vol. 4442 No. 3: 3 Jul. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-07-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.3.12
Page range: 498–500
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 4

A contribution to the revision of Adorodocia Brenske (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Adoretini): a new peculiar species from Ankaratra, Madagascar

UMR 7179 MNHN/CNRS, MECADEV, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Entomologie, CP 50, 45 rue Buffon, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France. Laboratory of Insect Systematics, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab., 1, 199034 Sankt-Petersburg, Russia.
UMR 7179 MNHN/CNRS, MECADEV, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Entomologie, CP 50, 45 rue Buffon, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France.
Coleoptera Scarabaeidae Rutelinae Adoretini

Abstract

The recently revised genus Adorodocia Brenske, 1893 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Adoretini), comprises 17 species, one of them represented by two subspecies (Montreuil & Frolov 2014). This genus forms, together with Paradorodocia Machatschke, 1957 (four species: Montreuil 2010), and Metadorodocia Machatschke, 1957 (two species: Akhmetova & Montreuil 2010), the subtribe Adorodociina Ohaus, 1912, endemic to Madagascar (Ohaus 1912). Representatives of this subtribe are characterized by a strong prominent prosternal apophyse. In addition, all the species of this subtribe have a rather large body and bear a few strong long hairs on the apical hump of the elytra and more or less strong scale-like setae distributed over the elytra.

 

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