Madecorphnus simplex Frolov, 2010

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 simplex Frolov, 2010

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R. Harin'Hala; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Madecorphnussimplex; genus: Madecorphnus; specificEpithet: simplex; scientificNameAuthorship: Frolov, 2010; Location: country: Madagascar; stateProvince: Fianarantsoa; verbatimLocality: Parc National Ranomafana, at broken bridge; verbatimElevation: 1110 m; verbatimLatitude: 17°10'30''S; verbatimLongitude: 49°16'05''E; Identification: identifiedBy: Andrey V. Frolov; Event: eventDate: 19-26 March 2002; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35143; institutionCode: CAS; collectionCode: CASENT

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Fisher, Griswold et al.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Madecorphnussimplex; genus: Madecorphnus; specificEpithet: simplex; scientificNameAuthorship: Frolov, 2010; Location: country: Madagascar; stateProvince: Fianarantsoa; verbatimLocality: Foret d'Atsirakambiaty, 7.6 km 285° WNW Itremo; verbatimElevation: 1550 m; verbatimLatitude: 20°35'36''S; verbatimLongitude: 046°33'48''E; Identification: identifiedBy: Andrey V. Frolov; Event: eventDate: 22-26 January 2003; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35143; institutionCode: CAS; collectionCode: CASENT

Distribution

The species was described from one specimen from Ambatofitorahana. The new locality records include Itremo Massif and Ranomafana National Park (Fig. 3).