Haroldiellus sallei (Harold)

Skelley, Paul E. & Keller, Oliver, 2022, A third species of Haroldiellus Gordon and Skelley, 2007 from Mexico and Central America (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: Aphodiini), Insecta Mundi 2022 (916), pp. 1-11 : 3-4

Haroldiellus sallei (Harold)

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Aphodius sallei Harold 1863: 336 ~ Blackwelder 1944: 213; Dellacasa et al. 1998: 159 (habitus, epipharynx and aedeagus figured; lectotype designated).

Aphodius sallaei (Harold) ~ Bates 1887: 83 (incorrect spelling); 1889: 391.

Aphodius (Bodilus) sallei (Harold) ~ Schmidt 1913: 166; 1922: 304; Dellacasa 1988: 373.

Agrilinus sallei (Harold) ~ Dellacasa et al. 2002: 159.

Aphodius (Agrilinus) freyi Balthasar 1941: 164 ~ M. Dellacasa 1988: 366; Dellacasa et al. 2000: 15 (synonymy).

Haroldiellus sallei (Harold) ~ Gordon and Skelley 2007: 270.

Diagnosis. Length 3.5–5.5 mm, width 1.8–2.0. mm. A member of Haroldiellus distinguished from other species by: Elytral striae deeply impressed, intervals convex; interval color pale lacking distinct marks ( Fig. 1 ). Female lacking median frontal tubercle; male median frontal tubercle conical, not transversely widened ( Fig. 6 ). Protibia with dorsal surface lacking punctures ( Fig. 4 ).

Distribution. ( Fig. 11 ). USA (Arizona, south central Texas); Mexico (Chiapas, Durango, Estado de México, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán); Guatemala (Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, El Progreso, Escuintla, Guatemala, Izabal, Quetzaltenango, Sacatepéquez, Santa Rosa, Zacapa); El Salvador (Chalatenango, Cuscatlán, La Libertad, San Salvador, San Vincente, Santa Ana); Honduras (Comayagua, Copán, Cortés, El Paraíso, Francisco Morazán, Ocotepeque, Olancho); Nicaragua (Boaco, Jinotega, León, Managua, Río San Juan, Rivas); Costa Rica (Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limón, Puntarenas, San José); Panama (Chiriqui, Coclé, Panama, Veraguas); Colombia (Valle de Cauca); Jamaica (Clarendon, Manchester, Portland, Saint Andrew, Saint Ann, Saint Catherine, Saint Thomas, Trelawny); Haiti (Artibonite, Ouest, Sud-Est); Dominican Republic (Azua, Barahona, La Altagracia, La Vega, Monte Cristi, Pedernales, San Cristobal, Santo Domingo); US Virgin Islands (St. Thomas).

These are records repeated from Bates 1887, 1889; Balthasar 1941; Dellacasa et al. 2002; Skelley et al. 2007; Ramírez-Ponce et al. 2009; Cruz R. et al. 2012; Halffter et al. 2012; López-Collado et al. 2017; Minor 2017; Perez- Gelabert 2020; Rivera-Gasperín and Escobar-Hernández 2020; and Warner 2022 in press. Additional records are from museum specimens deposited in CMN; FSCA; LSAM; TAMU. In the United States, the only records we were able to confirm are from southern Texas and Arizona. The distributional comments in Dellacasa et al. (2002) of “southern coast, from South Carolina and Florida to Texas ” is in error.

Materials examined. Over the years, we have examined hundreds of specimens in the museums cited above plus many more. These data are too voluminous to present in this paper. Their distribution is abbreviated above.

Remarks. As noted by Dellacasa et al. (2002), H. sallei is a widespread common lowland species. It is often collected in cow dung.

Figures

Figure 11. Distribution map of Haroldiellus sallei (blue) as currently known from specimen labels and literature records. Map made with SimpleMappr (Shorthouse 2010).

Figures 1–5. Haroldiellus species. 1) H. sallei dorsal habitus. 2) H. lansbergei dorsal habitus. 3) H. woodruffi, holotype, dorsal habitus. 4) H. sallei protibia dorsal surface with punctures. 5) H. woodruffi protibia dorsal surface without punctures. Scale line = 0.5 mm.

Figures 6–9. Heads of Haroldiellus species. 6) H. sallei. 7) H. lansbergei. 8) H. woodruffi female allotype. 9) H. woodruffi male holotype. Scale line = 0.5 mm (all figures).