Blackburneussanfilippoi, 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 : 29

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10090539

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5165136

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/504AB401-FFF7-FFAC-FF0C-0446E436F999

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scientific name

Blackburneussanfilippoi
status

sp. nov.

Blackburneussanfilippoi newspecies

( Fig. 122-126 View Figures 116-126 )

Typelocality. S[ie]rra Ventana, m 200, P[rovin].cia B[uenos]. A[ire].s, Arg[entina].

Type repository. Dellacasa Collection, Genoa.

Description. Length 4.5–5.0 mm; elongate, convex, moderately shiny, glabrous. Brownish yellow; epistome and pronotal disc brown; elytra shadowy brownish yellow but second interstria paler; legsbrownish yellow; antennal club yellow. Head with epistome superficially alutaceous, moderately gibbous medially, irregularly punctured; punctation distally denserand coarser, moresuperficial and sparseron disc; clypeus slightly sinuate at middle, roundat sides, slightlyarcuate laterally, thinly bordered, edge shortly bristled; genae obtusely round, shortly bristled, feebly protruding from the eyes; frontal suture finely impressed, not tuberculate; front sparsely, finely, evenly punctured. Pronotum transverse, convex, dually punctured; large punctures, three to four times larger than small ones, rather sparsely irregularly scattered on sides, lacking medially; small punctures almost evenly scattered throughout but somewhat deeper laterally and more superficial medially, lacking on a narrow longitudinal medio-basal areola; lateral margins feebly arcuate, very thinly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles obtusely round; base regularly arcuate, not bordered. Scutellum flat, elongate, very finely sparselypunctured on basal half. Elytra ovalelongate, feebly broadened posteriorly, very convex, finely striate; striae superficially, not closely punctured, faintly crenulate; interstriae almost flat, superficially alutaceous, near imperceptibly sparsely punctured. Hind tibiae superior apical spur shorter than first tarsal segment; latter as long as following three segments combined. Male: head and pronotum somewhat more transverse and less convex; metasternal plate excavate; aedeagus Fig. 125-126 View Figures 116-126 . Female: head and pronotum somewhat less transverse and more convex; metasternal plate nearly flat.

Type material. ARGENTINA: Sierra Ventana, m 200, Provincia Buenos Aires, 14.III.1972, leg. C. Bordón (holotype male, allotype and two paratypes, DCGI; one paratype, FSCA) .

Distribution. Known from the type locality only.

Etymology. Named in honor of our dear friend, the late Nino Sanfilippo, dytiscidologist in Genoa.

Bionomics. Unknown. Specimens of the type series were collected in March.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Aphodiidae

Genus

Blackburneus

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