taxonID	type	description	language	source
CFF2ECFF19E057C0922B233CD4AD1BC8.taxon	description	Figs 1, 2, 4, 5	en	Ratcliffe, Brett C., Seidel, Matthias (2021): A new species of Chalepides Casey, 1915 (Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini) from the Pantanal of Brazil. Evolutionary Systematics 5 (2): 189-192, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.70944, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.70944
CFF2ECFF19E057C0922B233CD4AD1BC8.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Chalepides pantanalensis will key to couplet 11 in Endroedi (1985) which ends with C. comes Prell (Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil) where the character states do not match: degree of punctation of pronotum versus frons, pygidial sculpturing, and form of the parameres. In Joly and Escalona (2002), it will key to couplet 8 for C. osunai Joly & Escalona (Venezuela) and C. howdenorum Joly & Escalona (northern Bolivia), the only Chalepides species with a bulbous and rounded apex of the parameres (as in C. pantanalensis). Chalepides pantanalensis has some character states seen in both of these species. The parameres are nearly identical to those of C. howdenorum, but the male of C. pantanalensis has a tooth on the venter of protarsomere 5 (absent in C. howdenorum, Fig. 3) and the larger protarsal claw is short and thick in C. pantanalensis (narrowly elongate in C. howdenorum) (compare Figs 2 and 3). The male of C. pantanalensis shares with C. osunai a tooth on the venter of protarsomere 5 and a larger short, thick protarsal claw, but C. pantanalensis has a greenish sheen (absent in C. osunai), a densely punctate clypeus (sparsely punctate in C. osunai), and shorter, suboval parameres (elongate in C. osunai).	en	Ratcliffe, Brett C., Seidel, Matthias (2021): A new species of Chalepides Casey, 1915 (Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini) from the Pantanal of Brazil. Evolutionary Systematics 5 (2): 189-192, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.70944, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.70944
CFF2ECFF19E057C0922B233CD4AD1BC8.taxon	description	Description of holotype (Fig. 1). Male. Length 16.7 mm; width 6.9 mm. Color black with faint olive-green sheen. Head: Frons with small, moderately dense, ocellate punctures. Clypeus with small, dense, ocellate punctures; apex broadly, shallowly emarginate, slightly reflexed. Frontal suture arcuate, complete. Interocular width equals 6.0 transverse eye diameters. Pronotum: Surface with small, sparse, ocellate punctures. Elytra: Surface punctate-striate; punctures small, ocellate, separated by about 1 puncture diameter in each row, moderately dense in intervals. Sutural stria a row of small punctures. Pygidium: Prepygidium elongated, coarsely and longitudinally strigose, with long, dense, tawny setae. Pygidium short; surface shiny with large, dense, setigerous punctures, punctures becoming small in lateral angles; setae short, moderately dense, tawny. Surface convex in lateral view. Legs: Protibia tridentate, teeth subequally spaced. Protarsus enlarged; tarsomere 4 and base of tarsomere 5 densely strigulose ventrally; tarsomere 5 longitudinally carinulate on inner margin and with distinctive tooth beneath (Fig. 2); median claw stout, short, strongly bent (Fig. 2). Metatarsus shorter than metatibia. Venter: Prosternal process long, thick, columnar, apex flattened with raised, round " button " on all but slender, setose posterior margin. Parameres: Each side of shaft at about midpoint with small tooth and then shaft expanded to rounded apex (Fig. 4). Allotype. Female. Length 16.7 mm; width 6.9 mm. As holotype except in the following respects: Legs: Protarsi simple, not enlarged.	en	Ratcliffe, Brett C., Seidel, Matthias (2021): A new species of Chalepides Casey, 1915 (Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini) from the Pantanal of Brazil. Evolutionary Systematics 5 (2): 189-192, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.70944, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.70944
CFF2ECFF19E057C0922B233CD4AD1BC8.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet is an adjective and refers to the habitat type, the Pantanal, in which this species occurs.	en	Ratcliffe, Brett C., Seidel, Matthias (2021): A new species of Chalepides Casey, 1915 (Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini) from the Pantanal of Brazil. Evolutionary Systematics 5 (2): 189-192, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.70944, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.70944
CFF2ECFF19E057C0922B233CD4AD1BC8.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Chalepides pantanalensis is known only from Brazil's Pantanal Region (Fig. 5).	en	Ratcliffe, Brett C., Seidel, Matthias (2021): A new species of Chalepides Casey, 1915 (Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini) from the Pantanal of Brazil. Evolutionary Systematics 5 (2): 189-192, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.70944, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.70944
CFF2ECFF19E057C0922B233CD4AD1BC8.taxon	distribution	Temporal distribution. May (3), November (5).	en	Ratcliffe, Brett C., Seidel, Matthias (2021): A new species of Chalepides Casey, 1915 (Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini) from the Pantanal of Brazil. Evolutionary Systematics 5 (2): 189-192, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.70944, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.70944
