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Issue: Vol. 4964 No. 2: 22 Apr. 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-04-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4964.2.10
Page range: 390–394
Abstract views: 154
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A hidden Megasoma Kirby species under the enigmatic genus Gibboryctes Endrödi (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)

Departamento de Fitossanidade, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Rua Manoel de Medeiros, s/n—Dois Irmãos, Recife—PE, 52171-900, Brazil.
Departamento de Fitossanidade, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Rua Manoel de Medeiros, s/n—Dois Irmãos, Recife—PE, 52171-900, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Moraes Rego S/N, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Pernambuco 50670420, Brazil
Departamento de Fitossanidade, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Rua Manoel de Medeiros, s/n—Dois Irmãos, Recife—PE, 52171-900, Brazil.
Coleoptera Scarabaeidae Dynastinae

Abstract

Gibboryctes Endrödi, 1974 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Oryctini) is an uncommon Neotropical genus comprising five valid species (Gasca-Álvarez & Ratcliffe 2011; Dupuis 2019). Endrödi (1974) established the genus based on Gibboryctes szelenyii Endrödi, 1974 and defined it by the absence of sexual dimorphism; short, triangular, and pointed clypeus; bidentate mandibles projected beyond the anterior clypeal margin; and protibiae quadridentate. After that, Gibboryctes waldenfelsi (Endrödi, 1977) and Gibboryctes gracilicornis (Prell, 1912) were assigned to Gibboryctes, from Strategus Kirby, 1828 and Heterogomphus Burmeister, 1847, respectively (Ratcliffe & Dechambre 1983; Dupuis & Dechambre 2008). Gibboryctes bollei Dechambre, 2006 and Gibboryctes impunctatus Dupuis, 2019 were subsequently described.

 

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