Paraegidium monneorum Frolov, Akhmetova

Frolov, Andrey V., Akhmetova, Lilia A. & Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Z., 2017, Revision of the South American genus Paraegidium Vulcano et al. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae), Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 51 (17 - 18), pp. 995-1014 : 998-1004

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1326640
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5190706
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scientific name	Paraegidium monneorum Frolov, Akhmetova
status

Treatment

Paraegidium monneorum Frolov, Akhmetova & Vaz-de-Mello, sp. nov.

( Figures 1 View Figure 1 (a–d), 7)

Type locality

Brazil, Goiás, Minaçu, Serra da Mesa.

Type material examined

Holotype, male at MNRJ labelled ‘ BRASIL. Goias Mun. Minaçu Serra da Mesa X. 1985 L. C. Alvarenga / Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro / Paraegidium sp. Vaz-de-Mello det 2003’.

Diagnosis

P. monneorum sp. nov. can be separated from the other species of the genus by having relatively long parameres (ratio phallobase length/paramere length 1.9, Figure 1 View Figure 1 (c)) and truncated lobes of the anterior frontoclypeal process ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (a)).

Description

Holotype, male ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (a–d)).

Body length 7.9 mm. Colour uniformly brown.

Anterior frontoclypeal process long and wide, as wide as head, sinuate medially, with symmetric lateral lobes; the lobes truncated apically, in lateral view their lateral angles not directed caudally.

Pronotum narrower than elytra, deeply excavated in middle. Lateral pronotal processes depressed, somewhat ridge-shaped, their hind margins with carinae reaching base of pronotum. Pronotum coarsely punctate to rugose except for very apices of lateral pronotal processes and a narrow area near anterior margin.

Aedeagus with long parameres: ratio phallobase width/paramere width 1.9 ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (c)). Endophallus with a group of spinules ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (b)). Apices of parameres acute in lateral view ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 (d)).

Female. unknown.

Distribution

The species is known from one locality in the Brazilian state of Goiás ( Figure 7 View Figure 7 ). Etymology

The species is named after Miguel and Marcela Monné, Coleoptera curators at the National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, responsible in great part for the present Brazilian Coleoptera taxonomy school.