Diastellopalpus orbignyi Péringuey, 1904

Daniel, Gimo M., Strümpher, Werner P., Josso, Jean-François & Davis, Adrian L. V., 2024, Taxonomic revision of Mozambique dung beetle species in the genus Diastellopalpus van Lansberge, 1886 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), Zootaxa 5447 (1), pp. 29-54 : 43

Diastellopalpus orbignyi Péringuey, 1904 , valid species

( Figs. 7 , 11, 16 , 26–27 , 32 )

Diastellopalpus orbignyi Péringuey, 1904: 224–225 ; Péringuey, 1908: 626–627; d’Orbigny, 1913: 723; Ferreira, 1965: 1176; Ferreira, 1967: 479; Ferreira, 1972: 548; Josso & Prévost, 2000: 41.

Type locality: “Southern Rodhesia (Umtali and Gasaland)” [ Mutare and Gazaland, Manicaland, Zimbabwe] .

Figures

FIGURE 32. Distribution of Diastellopalpus van Lansberge, 1886 species in Mozambique: red circles: Diastellopalpus scholtzi Daniel, Strümpher, Josso & Davis new species; blue circle: Diastellopalpus infernalis van Lansberge, 1887; yellow circle: Diastellopalpus neavei (d’Orbigny, 1914); pink circles: Diastellopalpus orbignyi Péringuey, 1904, valid species; green circles: Diastellopalpus quinquedens Bates, 1888.

FIGURES 5–7. Head and pronotal disc, dorsal view. 5, Diastellopalpus scholtzi Daniel, Strümpher, Josso & Davis new species, holotype (Photo by W.P. Strümpher); 6, Diastellopalpus infernalis van Lansberge, 1887, holotype (Photo courtesy of Yvonne van Dam, copyright RMNH); 7, Diastellopalpus orbignyi Péringuey, 1904, valid species (Photo by W.P. Strümpher).

FIGURES 8–17. Male genitalia, lateral view (8–12) and dorsal (13–17). Diastellopalpus scholtzi Daniel, Strümpher, Josso & Davis new species, holotype (8, 13); Diastellopalpus infernalis van Lansberge, 1887 (9, 14); Diastellopalpus neavei (d’Orbigny, 1914) (10, 15); Diastellopalpus orbignyi Péringuey, 1904, valid species (11, 16); Diastellopalpus quinquedens Bates, 1888 (12, 17). Photos by W.P. Strümpher (8, 10–12, 13, 15–17) and J.-F. Josso (9, 14).

FIGURES 26–27. Diastellopalpus orbignyi Péringuey, 1904, status revalidated, lectotype (SAMC). 26, habitus, dorsal view; 27, labels. Photos courtesy of G.M. Daniel, copyright SAMC.