Gonaphodiopsis deloyai, Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon, 2012

Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D., 2012, Systematic revision of Gonaphodiellus taxa, with description of two new genera and fourteen new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Insecta Mundi 2012 (230), pp. 1-41 : 23-24

Gonaphodiopsis deloyai new species

( Fig. 104-108 )

Type locality. Cueva de Tasalolpan, 20°01’N – 097°31’W, m 1495, Cuetzalan del Progreso, Puebla, Mexico.

Type repository. Dellacasa Collection, Genoa, Italy.

Description. Length 4.0-4.5 mm; oblong elongate, convex, shiny, glabrous. Reddish brown; pronotum and elytra shadowy darker on disc; legs dark brown; antennal club testaceous. Head with epistome feebly convex, densely, evenly, moderately coarsely punctured; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, round at sides, rather finely bordered, edge glabrous; genae broadly round, not ciliate, faintly protruding from the eyes; frontal suture feebly raised, not tuberculate; front evenly, moderately coarsely punctured. Pronotum transverse, moderately convex, dually punctured; punctation dense and almost uniformly scattered throughout; large punctures, five to six times larger than small ones, somewhat denser on sides, sparser medially; small, very fine punctures evenly scattered throughout; lateral margins nearly straight, very finely bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles truncate, truncation not inwardly sinuate; base almost regularly arcuate. Scutellum elongate, somewhat depressed laterally, finely punctured on basal half. Elytra convex, elongate, feebly broadened posteriorly, moderately denticulate at shoulder, deeply striate; striae rather fine, distinctly punctured, subcrenulate; interstriae slightly convex on disc, somewhat more convex on preapical declivity, very finely sparsely punctured. Hind tibiae upper spur somewhat shorter than first tarsal segment; first tarsal segment distinctly longer than following three segments combined. Male: pronotum relatively more transverse and less convex; fore tibiae spur stouter and shorter; aedeagus Fig. 107-108 . Female: pronotum relatively less transverse and more convex; fore tibiae spur slender and longer.

Type material. MEXICO: Oaxaca: rd Mexico 135- San Gabriel Mixtepec env., 16°13’13.8’’ N-097 °08’55.7’’W, m 2600, 17.VI.2002, leg. Dellacasa M. & Martínez I. (1 paratype, DCGI) ; 26 Km E Valle Nacional Km 71, 25.VI-02.VIII.1983, leg. Peck S. & J., mountain tropical forest, FIT (2 paratypes, DCGI, CNCI) ; Puebla: 2.7 Km S Apulco, nr. Zacapoaxtla , m 1401, 22.VII.1987, leg. Anderson R. S., cloud forest (1 paratype, CNCI) ; Cueva de Tasalolpan, Cuetzalan del Progreso , 20°01’N – 97°31’W, m 1495, 18.VIII.1987, leg. Deloya A. C., salchicha de nidificación de Haplogeotrupes reddelli (Howden) (male holotype, DCGI ; allotype, FSCA ; 2 paratypes, DCGI) ; Nuevo Necaxa, m 1200, 25-28.VII.1969, leg. Peck S. & J., carrion baited trap, Sycamore forest (1 paratype, CNCI) ; San Luis Potosí: 20 Km W Xilitla, m 1600, 12.VI-06.VIII.1983, leg. Peck S. & J., FIT, cloud forest (2 paratypes, CNCI) ; Tamaulipas: nr. Gomez Farias, Rancho del Cielo , m 1000, 06.VI. -07.VIII.1983, leg. Pack S. & J., FIT, cloud forest (3 paratypes, DCGI, CNCI) ; Wet Cave , 06.II.1964, leg. Reddell, McKenzie & Manire (1 paratype, USNM) ; Veracruz: El Duraznal, m 1600, 15.VII.1994, leg. Arellano L. & Sanchez R., bosque encino, trampa copro vaca (1 paratype, DCGI) .

Distribution. Mexico (Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz).

Etymology. Named in honor of the Mexican scarabaeidologist Aristeo Cuauhtémoc Deloya, researcher at Instituto de Ecologia in Xalapa (Veracruz).

Bionomics. Some of the specimens of the type series were collected in “salchicha de nidificación” of Haplogeotrupes reddelli (Howden) .

Figures

Figure 99-108. Gonaphodioides skelleyi, new species (San Juan Chamula env., Chiapas, Mexico). 99) Epipharynx. 100-101) Habitus (morphological details and length ideogram). 102-103) Aedeagus (dorsal and lateral view). Gonaphodiopsis deloyai, new species (Cueva de Tasalolpan, Cuetzalan del Progreso, Puebla, Mexico). 104) Epipharynx. 105-106) Habitus (morphological details and length ideogram). 107-108) Aedeagus (dorsal and lateral view).