A new species and distribution records of Dichotomius Hope, 1838 (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Colombia
Author
Chamorro, William
Carrera 3 no. 25 - 32. Villa Recreo, San Juan de Pasto, Nariño, Colombia.
Author
Lopera-Toro, Alejandro
0000-0001-5097-1655
Investigador Asociado Fundación Ecotrópico Colombia y Grupo de Investigación Sistemática Biológica, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Av. Central del Norte 39 - 115, Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5097 - 1655 Finnish Museum of Natural History “ Luonnontieteellinen keskusmuseo (LUOMUS) ”, University of Helsinki, Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13, Helsinki, 00014, Finland. micros. naturae @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1938 - 6105
Author
Rossini, Michele
0000-0002-1938-6105
micros.naturae@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-03-12
4942
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193
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Dichotomius
(
Dichotomius
)
podalirius
(
Felsche, 1901
)
(
Figs. 3
D–E, 4A–B)
Pinotus podalirius
Felsche, 1901: 137
(original description).
Type
locality:
Ecuador
.
Type series.
One
syntype
deposited at
Senckenberg Museum
f̹r
Tierkunde of Dresden
,
Germany
(sex unknown) (Chamorro e
t al.
2019a: 118)
.
Remarks.
According to
Sarmiento-Garcés & Amat-García (2014)
this species has a length of
20–32 mm
. In the reviewed material for the species (
n
= 30), no individual was greater than
22 mm
. We consider that the description length for this species is incorrect and the largest individual does not exceed
23 mm
. It is distributed in
Colombia
: Amazonas,
Caquetá
,
Guaviare
,
Meta
,
Nariño
, and
Vaupés
departments (
Medina
et al.
2001: 138
;
Sarmiento-Garcés & Amat-García 2014: 41
); and
Ecuador
:
Napo
,
Orellana
,
Sucumbíos
, and
Zamora Chinchipe
provinces (
Chamorro
et al.
2019a: 117
).