Systematic redefinition of the New World Didactyliini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) with descriptions of two new species of Aidophus Balthasar

Authors

Marco Dellacasa, Museo di Storia naturale e del Territorio
Robert D. Gordon, Willow City, NDFollow
Phillip J. Harpootlian, Simpsonville, SC
Zdzislawa Stebnicka, Poland
Giovanni Dellacasa, Genova, Italy

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

December 2001

Comments

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

Abstract

As now understood, the New World Didactyliini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) consists of eleven species of Aidophus Balthasar, two of which are new, and the introduced Australaphodius frenchi (Blackburn). Keys, descriptions and figures are provided to distinguish all included species.