Triodontus itremoi Paulian, 1977

Frolov, Andrey V., 2013, Little known Orphninae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) collected by the Madagascan expeditions of the California Academy of Sciences 1, Biodiversity Data Journal 1, pp. 1016-1016 : 1016

Triodontus itremoi Paulian, 1977

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Fisher, Griswold et al.; individualCount: 6 males and 10 females; Taxon: scientificName: Triodontusitremoi; genus: Triodontus; specificEpithet: itremoi; scientificNameAuthorship: Paulian, 1977; Location: country: Madagascar; verbatimLocality: Foret d'Atsirakambiaty, 7.6 km 285 ТА WNW Itremo; verbatimElevation: 1550 m; verbatimLatitude: 20°35'36''S; verbatimLongitude: 46°33'48''E; Identification: identifiedBy: Andrey V. Frolov; Event: eventDate: 22-26 January 2003; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35143; institutionCode: CAS; collectionCode: CASENT Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: B.L.Fisher et al.; individualCount: 4 males and 2 females; Taxon: scientificName: Triodontusitremoi; genus: Triodontus; specificEpithet: itremoi; scientificNameAuthorship: Paulian, 1977; Location: country: Madagascar; verbatimLocality: Toamasina Ambatovy, 12.4 km NE Moramanga; verbatimElevation: 1040 m; verbatimLatitude: 18°51'29" S; verbatimLongitude: 048°17'06" E; Identification: identifiedBy: Andrey V. Frolov; Event: eventDate: 5-8 March 2007; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35143; institutionCode: CAS; collectionCode: CASENT Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: B.L.Fisher et al.; individualCount: 1 male; Taxon: scientificName: Triodontusitremoi; genus: Triodontus; specificEpithet: itremoi; scientificNameAuthorship: Paulian, 1977; Location: country: Madagascar; verbatimLocality: Toamasina Ambatovy, 12.4 km NE Moramanga; verbatimLatitude: 18°50'22" S; verbatimLongitude: 048°18'30" E; Identification: identifiedBy: Andrey V. Frolov; Event: eventDate: 4-7 March 2007; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35143; institutionCode: CAS; collectionCode: CASENT

Distribution

This species was described from two rather distant localities, in the Itremo Massif and Tsiroanomandidy (Bongolava district). New records extend the known species range to the eastern slopes of the central plateau occupied by the largest remnants of rain forest (Fig. 4).