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Issue: Vol. 4462 No. 3: 28 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.3.5
Page range: 379–403
Abstract views: 98
PDF downloaded: 5

Review of the species of Macrodactylus Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from Costa Rica and Panama

Red Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología A.C., Carretera antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa 91070, Veracruz, México.
Red Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología A.C., Carretera antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa 91070, Veracruz, México.
Coleoptera Central America rose chafers

Abstract

Fifteen species of Macrodactylus Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Macrodactylini) from Costa Rica and Panama are described and illustrated, including eight new species: M. latreillei new species., M. pseudothoracicus new species. and M. dejeani new species from Costa Rica; M. solisi new species from Costa Rica and Panama; M. martinezi new species from Costa Rica and Venezuela; M. chiriquiensis new species and M. kunayalaensis new species from Panama; and M. moroni new species from Costa Rica, and Panama. Diagnosis for seven species previously recorded in Costa Rica and Panama are included, and a key to all known species of Macrodactylus in these countries is provided.

 

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