Liogenys bidenticeps Moser, 1919

Cherman, Mariana Alejandra, Basílio, Daniel Silva, Mise, Kleber Makoto, Frisch, Johannes & Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De, 2021, Liogenys Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae Diplotaxini) from the Chacoan Province and its boundaries: taxonomic overview with four new species, Zootaxa 4938 (1), pp. 1-59 : 4-6

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4561262

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Liogenys bidenticeps Moser, 1919
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Liogenys bidenticeps Moser, 1919

Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 .

Liogenys bidenticeps Moser, 1919: 13 ; Blackwelder 1944: 227; (checklist), Frey 1969: 43 (key); Evans 2003: 207 (checklist); Evans & Smith 2009: 175 (checklist); Cherman et al. 2011: 620 (immatures key); Krajčík 2012: 144 (checklist); Cherman et al. 2013: 273, 277 (natural history); Cherman et al. 2014a: 285 (natural history); Rodrigues et al. 2014: 235–238 (natural history); Cherman et al. 2016: 759 (systematics); Cherman et al. 2017: 26 View Cited Treatment (redescription); Rodrigues et al. 2017: 339–348 View Cited Treatment (immatures description, adult natural history).

Liogenys bicuspis Moser, 1919: 14 ; Blackwelder 1944: 227; (checklist), Frey 1969: 43 (key); Evans 2003: 207 (checklist); Evans & Smith 2009: 175 (checklist); Krajčík 2012: 144 (checklist); Cherman et al. 2017: 26 (synonymy).

Liogenys ophtalmicus Frey, 1973: 256 ; Krajčík 2012: 145 (checklist); Cherman et al. 2017: 5 (generic history). New synonym.

Liogenys opthalmica [sic]: Evans 2003: 212 (checklist); Evans & Smith 2009: 180 (checklist).

Type material. Types of Liogenys bidenticeps (male lectotype and three paralectotypes; ZMHB) and of Liogenys bicuspis (male lectotype and one paralectotype; ZMHB) were discussed in Cherman et al. (2017).

Liogenys ophtalmicus male holotype ( CASC) bearing the labels: [white typeset] “Ipane River / Chaco, Par / A. Schulze”, [white typeset] “L.W. Saylor / Collection”, [white, typeset and handwritten] “ California Academy / of Sciences / Type / No. 11816”, [red, typeset and handwritten] “Type / G. Frey 1973 / Liogenys / ophtalmicus”, genitalia mounted. Paratypes (1) ( NHMB) with the labels: [white typeset] “Ipane River / Chaco, Par / A. Schulze”, [white typeset] “L.W. Saylor / Collection”, [white, red typeset] “Leech”, [red, typeset and handwritten] “ Paratype / G. Frey 1973 / Liogenys / ophtalmicus / male”, “♂”, genitalia mounted.

Diagnosis and redescription. See Cherman et al. (2017).

Type locality. Liogenys bidenticeps : BRAZIL, S„o Paulo; L. bicuspis : BRAZIL, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso; L. ophtalmicus : PARAGUAY, Chaco, Río Ypané [natural border between Concepción and San Pedro departments].

Geographical distribution. BRAZIL (Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Bahia, S„o Paulo, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul) ; PARAGUAY (Concepción, San Pedro, Itapúa) ; ARGENTINA (Formosa, Catamarca, Santiago del Estero) .

Remarks. The holotype and paratype of L. ophtalmica , at CASC and NHMB, respectively, were studied. Frey (1973) stated and drew the “extraordinary shape of the head” and the “eyes exceedingly large, with distance between them less than one half the diameter of the eye”, and we verified these features on both type specimens. Surprisingly, the author did not recognize that the two type specimens, from the same collection event, bear a teratologic head ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 A–B). In the case of the holotype, the canthus is absent, so the insertion of the antennae is exposed ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ). In the paratype, a palp-like flagellum grew from the scape of the right antennae ( Fig. 1G, J View FIGURE 1 ). Besides the abnormal head, most of external body features are not teratological, although the body is dorsoventrally flattened and the legs more slender than B. bidenticeps . We conclude that L. bidenticeps and L. ophtalmica are synonyms principally based on the parameres ( Fig. 1L, M View FIGURE 1 ), which are an exact match.

NHMB

Natural History Museum Bucharest

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

Genus

Liogenys

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Liogenys bidenticeps Moser, 1919

Cherman, Mariana Alejandra, Basílio, Daniel Silva, Mise, Kleber Makoto, Frisch, Johannes & Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De 2021
2021
Loc

Liogenys opthalmica

Evans, A. V. & Smith, A. B. T. 2009: 180
Evans, A. V. 2003: 212
2003
Loc

Liogenys ophtalmicus

Cherman, M. A. & Mise, K. M. & Moron, M. A. & Vaz-de-Mello, F. Z. & Almeida, L. M. 2017: 5
Krajcik, M. 2012: 145
Frey, G. 1973: 256
1973
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Liogenys bidenticeps

Cherman, M. A. & Mise, K. M. & Moron, M. A. & Vaz-de-Mello, F. Z. & Almeida, L. M. 2017: 26
Rodrigues, S. R. & Fuhrmann, J. & Gomes, E. S. & Amaro, R. A. 2017: 339
Cherman, M. A. & Moron, M. A. & Almeida, L. M. 2016: 759
Cherman, M. A. & Moron, M. A. & Dal Pra, E. & Valmorbida, I. & Guedes, J. V. C. 2014: 285
Rodrigues, S. R. & Nogueira, G. A. de & Gomes, E. S. 2014: 235
Cherman, M. A. & Guedes, J. V. C. & Moron, M. A. & Dal Pra, E. & Bigolin, M. 2013: 273
Krajcik, M. 2012: 144
Cherman, M. A. & Guedes, J. V. C. & Moron, M. A. & Dal Pra, E. & Perini, C. R. & Jung, A. H. 2011: 620
Evans, A. V. & Smith, A. B. T. 2009: 175
Evans, A. V. 2003: 207
Frey, G. 1969: 43
Blackwelder, R. E. 1944: 227
Moser, J. 1919: 13
1919
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Liogenys bicuspis

Cherman, M. A. & Mise, K. M. & Moron, M. A. & Vaz-de-Mello, F. Z. & Almeida, L. M. 2017: 26
Krajcik, M. 2012: 144
Evans, A. V. & Smith, A. B. T. 2009: 175
Evans, A. V. 2003: 207
Frey, G. 1969: 43
Blackwelder, R. E. 1944: 227
Moser, J. 1919: 14
1919
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