Neosisyphus infuscatus ( Klug, 1855 )

Daniel, Gimo M., Davis, Adrian Lv., Sole, Catherine L. & Scholtz, Clarke H., 2020, Taxonomic review of the tribe Sisyphini sensu stricto Mulsant, 1842 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in southern Africa, including new species descriptions, Insect Systematics & Evolution 51 (1), pp. 1-61 : 49

Neosisyphus infuscatus ( Klug, 1855) ( Figs. 20 , 21B )

Montreuil 2015b: 10;

Sisyphus infuscatus Klug, 1855

Klug 1855: 651; Harold 1869: 984; Gillet 1911: 23; Arrow 1927: 464; Haaf 1955: 344; Ferreira 1972: 811.

Size: Male: length: 8.1– 7.1 mm; width: 4.8–3.6. Female: length: 8.0–7.0 mm; width: 4.5–3.0 mm

Type locality: Sena, Sofala, Mozambique

Diagnosis: N. infuscatus bears a sharp mid-posterior metafemoral spine as opposed to the more obtuse spine in N. spinipes . N. infuscatus also differs by lacking the prominent sharp-angled protrusion on the basal-posterior edge of the mesotibia. Parameres of N. infuscatus are distinctly bent inwards at the apex ( Fig. 21B ).

Examined type material

Paralectotype (designated here): (♂ SAM) /Sena/, Sisyphus fortuitus , PJ/, red label / Type SAM, 2677 / spinipes Thunb , det. Haaf 1954/, / Sisyphus infuscatus Klug , det. KM. Paschalidis 1975/, / Paralectotype, det: GM, Daniel, 2016 /.

Examined non-type material: See Supplementary information.

Distribution: N. infuscatus is an East to southern African species, associated with lowland dry savanna ( Fig. 22 ).

Figures

Fig. 20. Images of the habitus of the spinipes species-group: A. N. fortuitus, arrow indicating the main diagnostic feature of the species-group; B. N. infuscatus; C. N. spinipes.

Fig. 21. Images for the the aedeagi of the spinipes species-group: A. N. fortuitus; B. N. infuscatus; C. N. spinipes.

Fig. 22. Distribution map for the spinipes species-group.