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Issue: Vol. 4290 No. 3: 10 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4290.3.10
Page range: 571–580
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Description of the pupa and redescription of the third instar of Phileurus valgus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Phileurini)

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Avda. Libertad 5470. (3400) Corrientes, Argentina.
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Avda. Libertad 5470. (3400) Corrientes, Argentina.
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Claustro de San Agustín, Ext. 129, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia.
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Avda. Libertad 5470. (3400) Corrientes, Argentina.
Coleoptera scarab beetle morphology immature stages Argentina

Abstract

Phileurus valgus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Phileurini) is a common species widely distributed from the southern United States to Argentina and the West Indies. In this work the immature stages are described and illustrated based on specimens from Argentina. A key to the known third-stage larvae of New World Phileurini species is provided and updated. Notes on the life cycle and natural history are also included.

 

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