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Issue: Vol. 575 No. 1: 19 Jul. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-07-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.575.1.1
Page range: 1–4
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 7

A new Brazilian stag beetle of the genus Sclerostomus Burmeister, 1847 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Lucanidae)

Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Entomologia e Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica – RJ, BRASIL 23840-900
Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Entomologia e Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica – RJ, BRASIL 23840-900
Coleoptera Lucanidae Sclerostomus Altitatiayus South America Brazil

Abstract

A new species of the lucanid genus Sclerostomus Burmeister, 1847 (subgenus Altitatiayus Weinreich, 1960), S. trifurcatus sp. n., from the Itatiaia Mountains of the Brazilian Minas Gerais State, is described and illustrated. This new species is readily distinguished from all other species in the genus by the trifurcate apex of the mandible, and by the presence of a conspicuous tubercle on the frons.

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