Madecorphnus falcatus Paulian, 1992

Frolov, Andrey V., 2013, Little known Orphninae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) collected by the Madagascan expeditions of the California Academy of Sciences 1, Biodiversity Data Journal 1, pp. 1016-1016 : 1016

Madecorphnus falcatus Paulian, 1992

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: California Acad. of Sciences ant team; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Madecorphnusfalcatus; genus: Madecorphnus; specificEpithet: falcatus; scientificNameAuthorship: Paulian, 1992; Location: country: Madagascar; verbatimLocality: Toamasina, Parcelle K9 Tampolo; verbatimElevation: 10 m; verbatimLatitude: 17°10'30''S; verbatimLongitude: 49°16'05''E; Identification: identifiedBy: Andrey V. Frolov; Event: eventDate: 19 April 2004; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35143; institutionCode: CAS; collectionCode: CASENT

Distribution

This species was known from the only type specimen collected in Antanambe, on the eastern coast of Madagascar. The additional specimen (Fig. 2) was collected some 100 km south (Fig. 3), in littoral forest litter. This species may be a littoral forest specialist.