Neotrichaphodioides ecuadoriensis ( Petrovitz, 1961 ) Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Skelley, 2010

Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Skelley, Paul E., 2010, Neotrichaphodioides, new genus of Neotropical Aphodiini, with description of a new species from Peru (Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Insecta Mundi 2010 (133), pp. 1-12 : 4

Neotrichaphodioides ecuadoriensis ( Petrovitz, 1961) , new combination

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Aphodius (Trichaphodius) ecuadoriensis Petrovitz, 1961: 444 ; Dellacasa 1988: 274.

Aphodius (Gonaphodiellus) ecuadoriensis ; Petrovitz 1970: 226.

Type locality. Curay [Curaray], Ecuador.

Type repository. Senkenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (holotype examined).

Redescription. Length 5.0-5.5 mm; oblong, moderately convex, subshiny, glabrous. Reddish brown, clypeal margin and pronotal sides paler; legs reddish brown, antennal club yellowish. Head with epistoma convex, near imperceptibly microreticulate, evenly sparsely finely punctured; clypeus almost semicircular, entirely bordered, edge glabrous, anteriorly slightly reflexed; genae obtusely rounded, not ciliate, feebly protruding beyond eyes; later noticeably large; frontal suture finely impressed, mutic; front evenly sparsely punctured. Pronotum transverse, few convex, finely microreticulate, dually punctured; large, moderately coarse punctures, four to five times larger than small, irregularly, not closely sparse on sides, lacking on disc; small, fine punctures evenly sparsely scattered throughout, somewhat finer on disc; lateral margins feebly arcuate, rather thinly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles subtruncate; base distinctly bisinuate, not bordered. Scutellum flat, with few fine sparse punctures near base. Elytra oval elongate, moderately convex, feebly broadened posteriorly, finely striate; striae moderately impressed, finely punctured, subcrenulate; intervals superficially alutaceous, slightly convex, sparsely finely punctured. Hind tibiae superior apical spur shorter than first tarsal segment; latter somewhat longer than following three combined. Male: head with epistoma regularly convex; pronotum relatively more transverse, less convex, more sparsely punctured; metasternal plate concave, densely punctured, pubescent; aedeagus Fig. 11-12 . Female: head with epistome distinctly gibbous on disc; pronotum relatively more convex, less transverse, more densely punctured; metasternal plate nearly flat, sparsely punctured, almost glabrous.

Material examined. ECUADOR, Curaray , 4.I.1906, F. Ohaus S. (holotype male SMFM) ; Canelos , 22.X.1905, F. Ohaus S. (allotype MHNG) .

Distribution. Ecuador.

Figures

Figure 10-14. Neotrichaphodioides ecuadoriensis (Petrovitz, 1961) (holotype male). 10) Morphological details of habitus. 11-12) Aedeagus (dorsal and lateral view). 13) Epipharynx. 14) Habitus.