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Issue: Vol. 4638 No. 3: 17 Jul. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.3.8
Page range: 442–450
Abstract views: 106
PDF downloaded: 2

Description of the third instar of Macraspis clavata (Olivier, 1789 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae)

Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Agronomia/Fitossanidade, Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Coleoptera, Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, Dois Irmãos, s/n, 52171-900, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Agronomia/Fitossanidade, Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Coleoptera, Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, Dois Irmãos, s/n, 52171-900, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Agronomia/Fitossanidade, Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Coleoptera, Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, Dois Irmãos, s/n, 52171-900, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Nazaré, nº 481, CEP 04263-000, Ipiranga, São Paulo, Brasil.
Coleoptera Neotropical saproxylic beetles Scarabaeoidea taxonomy white grub

Abstract

The third instar of Macraspis clavata (Olivier, 1789), collected in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is described. Illustrations, comments on the natural history, and a key to third instar of Macraspis are also added.

 

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