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Published: 2021-06-21
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Compsodactylus Fuhrmann, 2012 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae): distributional notes and a new species

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, 04218-970 São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 6P4, Canada.
Macrodactylini Argentina Peru Neotropics taxonomy Coleoptera

Abstract

A new species of Compsodactylus Fuhrmann, 2012 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Macrodactylini) is described from Peru. New provincial records for Compsodactylus argentinus (Moser, 1919) are detailed for Argentina: Córdoba and Misiones. A revised key to Compsodactylus species is presented.

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