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Issue: Vol. 5575 No. 3: 24 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5575.3.8
Page range: 477-490
Abstract views: 146
PDF downloaded: 6

A revision of the taxonomic status of Xestotrogus Reitter, 1902 and related taxa, with the description of a new species from Iraqi Kurdistan (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)

Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia Giancarlo Ligabue; S. Croce 1730; 30135 Venezia; Italy
Department of Forest Ecology; Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology; Mendel University; Brno; Czech Republic; Department of Biology; College of Science; University of Sulaimani; Sulaymaniyah; Kurdistan Region; Iraq
Coleoptera rhizotrogini Middle East Kurdistan endophallus new species revision

Abstract

An undescribed species of Rhizotrogini recently collected in Iraqi Kurdistan evidenced the unclear diagnosis of the genus-level taxa to which it could be attributed, prompting their revision. As a result, the currently monotypic subgenus Xestotrogus Reitter, 1902 is removed from subgeneric rank under the genus Xanthotrogus Reitter, 1902, treated as a valid genus and re-diagnosed. Cyprotrogus Nikolajev, 2004, also monotypic, is recognized as its junior subjective synonym. The new species, the third known of the genus, is then described as Xestotrogus sagrmaticus Uliana & Khudhur, new species. External morphology, aedeagus and endophallus of each species are illustrated.

 

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