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Issue: Vol. 4852 No. 4: 17 Sept. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-09-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.4.3
Page range: 449–460
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Cavonus Sharp, 1875 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini: Pseudoryctina) in Western Australia with description of a new species and the female of Cavonus sculpturatus Blackburn, 1888

Department of Agriculture and Food WA (Quarantine WA), Locked Bag 69, Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986, Australia.
Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia.
Coleoptera nomenclature taxonomy classification dynastines

Abstract

The species of Cavonus Sharp, 1875 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini: Pseudoryctina) from Western Australia, Australia are revised and Cavonus fovealacus new species is described from southwestern Western Australia. The female attributed to Epironastes nigrisetosus Carne, 1957 is redescribed as the female of Cavonus sculpturatus Blackburn, 1888, as is the male of C. sculpturatus. Cavonus latecavatus Dupuis, 2017, from near Menzies in southwestern Western Australia, is transferred to Carneoryctes Özdikmen, 2009 as Carneoryctes latecavatus (Dupuis), new combination. Habitat descriptions, a distributional map, and revised keys to accommodate the new species are presented.

 

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