Cotinis fuscopicea Goodrich, 1966

Gasca-Álvarez, Héctor Jaime, Deloya, Cuauhtémoc & Reyes-Castillo, Pedro, 2017, Teratological Cases in Five Species of Cotinis Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Gymnetini), with a Compilation of Teratologies in Scarabaeoidea, The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (2), pp. 329-338 : 330

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https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-71.2.329

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5458145

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scientific name

Cotinis fuscopicea Goodrich, 1966
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Cotinis fuscopicea Goodrich, 1966

Teratology. Structural deformation. Male with a malformation in the frontal projection strongly curved, concave ( Fig. 2 View Figs ). The exact locality of origin of this individual is unknown.

Material Studied. Mexico. No other data. [ IBUNAM].

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Figs. 1–6. Teratological cases in Cotinis species. 1) Pedunculate tumor (arrow) on the head of C. barthelemyi; 2) Malformation in the frontal projection (arrow) of C. fuscopicea; 3) Hemibrachelytry (arrow) in C. lebasi; 4) Asymmetrical teratology in the clypeal projection of C. nitida; 5) Malformation in the pygidial surface of C. mutabilis chromatic form “atrata” (lateral view); 6) Malformation in the pygidial surface of C. mutabilis chromatic form “atrata” (dorsal view).

IBUNAM

Instituto de BiIología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cetoniidae

Genus

Cotinis