Melanophilharmostes

Ballerio, Alberto, Gill, Bruce D. & Grebennikov, Vasily V., 2011, Illustrated overview and identification key to Cameroonian Ceratocanthinae beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae) with description of four new species, Zootaxa 2892, pp. 1-24 : 16

Melanophilharmostes sp. A

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Material. 27 specimens, Cameroon S.-West Prov., Mt. Kupé at Nyasoso, N04°03.35’ E009°03.823’, 19– 21.V.2006, 1550 m, V. Grebennikov leg. ( ABCB, BDGC, CNCI).

Remarks. This species is similar to Melanophilharmostes carinatus (Paulian, 1974) but differs from it by the shape of the apical portion of parameres in dorsal view and the slightly different pattern of elytral punctation.

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FIGURE 12. Melanophilharmostes sp. A., habitus. A—distended specimen, dorsal, B – D—rolled up specimen, ventral (B), dorsal (C), lateral (D).