TWO NEW SPECIES OF CYCLOCEPHALA FROM ARIZONA AND MEXICO AND A NOTE ON MELANISTIC C. MELANOCEPHALA (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE: DYNASTINAE)

Authors

Brett C. Ratcliffe, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

February 1992

Comments

Published in The Coleopterists Bulletin, 46(3):250-255, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Brett C. Ratcliffe. Used by permission.

Abstract

Cyclocephala aravaipensis n.sp. and C. warneri n.sp. are described from Arizona, U.S.A. and Chiapas, Mexico, respectively. An unusual melanistic form of C. melanocephala (Fab.) is reported from two localities in northeastern Quintana Roo, Mexico.