A new species of Aphodius (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Alabama pocket gopher burrows

Authors

• Paul E. Skelley, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL
• Robert D. Gordon, Smithsonian Research AssociateFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

September 1995

Comments

Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/. Copyright © by Skelley and Gordon.

Abstract

Aphodius alabama, new species, collected in burrows of the southeastern pocket gopher Geomys pinetus Rafinesque, is described. Aphodius dyspistus Skelley & Woodruff, A. hubbelli S. & W., A. platypleurus S. & W., and A. tanytarsus S. & W., collected with A. alubarna, are all recorded from southeastern Alabama.