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Issue: Vol. 4695 No. 2: 7 Nov. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-11-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4695.2.5
Page range: 159–167
Abstract views: 174
PDF downloaded: 8

A new species of Colacus Ohaus, 1910 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from the Mata Seca biotope of Brazil, and notes on Colacus morio Ohaus, 1910

Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Invertebrados do Solo, Coodernação de Biodiversidade (COBIO), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, CEP 69011–970, Amazonas, Brazil.
Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Invertebrados do Solo, Coodernação de Biodiversidade (COBIO), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, CEP 69011–970, Amazonas, Brazil.
Laboratório de Taxonomia de Insetos, Departamento de Agronomia/Fitossanidade, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia Agrícola (PPGEA), Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco—UFRPE, Recife, CEP 52171–900, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Coleoptera Agaocephalini rhinoceros beetles Scarabaeoidea taxonomy

Abstract

In this contribution, Colacus rubrofemoratus Sobral, Morais, & Grossi new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Agaocephalini) is described and illustrated based on male specimens found in a transitional area of Caatinga, Atlantic Forest, and Cerrado in Brazil. In addition, the female of Colacus morio Ohaus, 1910 is redescribed, a distribution map for the genus is provided, and a new key to the species of Colacus is presented.

 

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