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Issue: Vol. 4147 No. 1: 2 Aug. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-08-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.1.4
Page range: 67–74
Abstract views: 150
PDF downloaded: 3

Three new Sisyphus species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from shaded vegetation in southern Africa

Scarab Research Group, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield-Pretoria 0002.
Scarab Research Group, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield-Pretoria 0002.
Scarab Research Group, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield-Pretoria 0002.
Coleoptera Afrotropical Region dung beetles Sisyphini Forest

Abstract

Descriptions are provided for three new shade-associated species in the dung beetle genus, Sisyphus Latreille, 1807: Sisyphus umbraphilus sp. nov., Sisyphus oralensis sp. nov., and Sisyphus neobornemisszanus sp. nov. All three species are illustrated by photographs of habitus, diagnostic features, and male aedeagi. A map is provided showing their geographical distributions.

 

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