Pseudocoelotrachelus peckorum, Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon, 2013

Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D., 2013, Pseudocoelotrachelus new genus of Neotropical Aphodiini with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Insecta Mundi 2013 (287), pp. 1-5 : 4

Pseudocoelotrachelus peckorum new species

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Type locality. Pozo Verde Trail, km 7, El Rey Nat. Park, m 1000, Salta Prov., Argentina.

Type repository. Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada.

Description. Length 5.0- 5.5 mm; oblong, moderately convex, shiny, glabrous. Dark piceous; clypeal margin and pronotum sides shadowy reddish brown; legs and antennal club piceous. Head with epistome feebly gibbous medially, anteriorly with vestiges of arcuate transverse carina; finely sparsely punctured, punctation more superficial distally; clypeus slightly sinuate at middle, distinctly denticulate at sides, denticles moderately reflexed, very thinly bordered, edge glabrous; genae acutely angulate, shortly ciliate, strongly protruding from the eyes; frontal suture finely impressed; front subregularly punctured, punctation somewhat coarser than on epistome. Pronotum feebly transverse, moderately convex, rather closely, simply and subregularly punctured; lateral margins almost straight, very thinly bordered, edge glabrous, S-shaped before hind angles; latter obtusely round and very shortly bristled; base slightly bisinuate, not bordered. Scutellum finely sparsely punctured on basal half. Elytra feebly broadened posteriorly, strongly denticulate at shoulder, rather deeply striate; striae feebly crenulate; interstriae moderately convex, finely and sparsely punctured. Hind tibiae superior apical spur shorter than first tarsal segment; latter somewhat longer than following three segments combined. Male: metasternal plate moderately excavate and with superficial median longitudinal groove; aedeagus Fig. 9-10. Female: metasternal plate almost flat, only with trace of median longitudinal groove.

Type material. ARGENTINA: Salta Prov., Pozo Verde Trail, km 7, El Rey Nat. Park, m 1000, 9- 15.XII. 1987, leg. S. & J. Peck, dung trap, Yungas forest (holotype, male, allotype CMNO; 1 paratype, DCGI) .