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Issue: Vol. 3872 No. 2: 8 Oct. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-10-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.2.4
Page range: 180–186
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 3

Description of Cyclocephala distincta Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini) immatures and identification key for third instars of some Cyclocephala species

Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitária, 50.670-901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Departamento de Química Fundamental, Av. Jornalista Anibal Fernandes s/n, Cidade Universitária, 50.740-560, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitária, 50.670-901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitária, 50.670-901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Abstract

The larval instars and pupa of Cyclocephala distincta Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini) are described and compared to those of other known congenerics. Adult C. distincta, specialized flower visitors of Neotropical palms (Arecaceae), were collected in an area of native Atlantic Forest cover in the northeastern coast of Brazil and reared in captivity. The larvae of C. distincta diff---er from those of the other congenerics because of a distinctive pattern and arrangement of the setae on the raster.