Rhyparus costaricensis Cartwright & Woodruff, 1969

Mora-Aguilar, Eder F. & Delgado, Leonardo, 2019, A new Mexican species of Rhyparus Westwood (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), with new records and a key to the Mexican and Guatemalan species, Zootaxa 4609 (1), pp. 196-200 : 197

Rhyparus costaricensis Cartwright & Woodruff, 1969 new country record

This species is known from Costa Rica (San José Province), and Mexico (Jalisco, Nayarit, and Veracruz) ( Cartwright & Woodruff, 1969; Rivera-Cervantes et al. 2014). One specimen represents a new country record for Guatemala, labeled: “ GUATEMALA: Alta Verapaz, Senahu, 11-IX-84, M. García col.” (IEXA) ( Fig. 10 ).

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FIGURE 10. Geographical distribution of Mexican and Guatemalan species of Rhyparus. Rhyparus chimalapensis (black circle), R. costaricensis (black triangle), R. mexicanus (open triangle), R. opacus (open circle), and R. suspiciosus (open square). Elevational limits each 600 m; darker and punctate lines indicate higher elevation.