Alloblackburneus guadalajarae, Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon, 2011

Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D., 2011, Systematic revision of the American taxa belonging to the genera Alloblackburneus Bordat, 2009, and Blackburneus Schmidt, 1913, with description of seven new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Insecta Mundi 2011 (204), pp. 1-52 : 9-10

Alloblackburneus guadalajarae newspecies

( Fig. 31-35 )

Typelocality. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

Type repository. United State National Museum. Washington.

Description. Length 4.5-5.0 mm; oval elongate, convex, moderately shiny, glabrous. Reddish testaceous; legs somewhat darker; antennalclub yellow. Head with epistome slightly convex on disc, dually coarsely somewhat irregularly not closely punctured; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, round at sides, thinly bordered, edge glabrous, moderately reflexed; genae obtusely round, sparsely ciliate, not protruding from the eyes; latter rather large; frontal suture distinctly impressed, not tuberculate; front dually, rather sparsely punctured. Pronotum weakly transverse, strongly convex, dually punctured; large punctures, seven to eight times larger than small ones, denser on sides, sparser and nearly lacking medially; small very fine punctures evenly, not closely scattered throughout; lateral margins feeblyarcuate, thickly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles obtusely round; base feebly bisinuate, thinly bordered. Scutellum narrowly elongate, slightly convex, sparsely punctured in basal half. Elytra feebly broadened posteriorly, deeply striate; striae rather superficially punctured, subcrenulate; interstriae strongly convex, near imperceptibly sparsely punctured. Hind tibiae superior apical spur shorter than first tarsal segment; latter shorter than following three segments combined. Male: pronotum somewhat more transverse and less convex; metasternal plate distinctly excavate; aedeagus Fig. 34-35 . Female: pronotum somewhat more narrowed frontwardly and more convex; metasternal plate almost flat.

Type material. MEXICO, Aguascalientes: Aguascalientes , 9.VIII.1955, leg. F. S. Islas (1 male, allotype, USNM) ; Jalisco: Guadalajara , 30.VII.1963, leg. P. J. Spangler (1 female, holotype, USNM) ; Nayarit: Acaponeta (1 male and 2 females, paratypes, DCGI) .

Distribution. Mexico (Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Nayarit).

Etymology. Named after the type locality.

Bionomics. Almost unknown. Two specimens of the type series were collected in Summer.

Figures

Figures 31-40. Alloblackburneus guadalajarae, new species (Guadalajara, Estado Jalisco, Mexico).31) Epipharynx. 32-33) Habitus (length ideogram and morphological details). 34-35) Aedeagus (dorsal and lateral view). Alloblackburneus ibanezbernali, new species (carr. to Copala, m 1800, Estado Jalisco, Mexico). 36) Epipharynx. 37-38) Habitus (morphological details and length ideogram). 39-40) Aedeagus (dorsal and lateral view).