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Issue: Vol. 4524 No. 5: 26 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.5.3
Page range: 553–566
Abstract views: 87
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A new species of Polynoncus Burmeister, 1876 from Brazil (Coleoptera: Trogidae)

Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversit (ISYEB), Unit Mixte de Recherche 7205, CP50, Entomologie, 45, rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France.
Laboratory of Integrative Entomology, Department of Animal Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, 13083-862 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Coleoptera Beetles Scarabaeoidea South America taxonomy

Abstract

Polynoncus vazdemelloi Huchet & Costa-Silva new species (Coleoptera: Trogidae) from Brazil is described and illustrated with data about the natural history and geographic distribution. Comparative data between P. vazdemelloi, P. juglans (Ratcliffe, 1978), and P. gemmingeri (Harold, 1872), species closely related morphologically, are given. Omorgus (Omorgus) triestinae Pittino, 1987 is removed from synonymy with O. (O.) suberosus (Fabricius, 1775) and reinstated as a valid species.

 

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