A REMARKABLE NEW SPECIES OF MEGACERAS FROM PERU (SCARABAEIDAE: DYNASTINAE: ORYCTINI). THE ‘‘DIM EFFECT’’: NATURE MIMICKING ART

Authors

Brett C. Ratcliffe, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

January 2007

Comments

Published in The Coleopterists Bulletin, 61(3):463–467. 2007. Copyright © 2007 by Brett C. Ratcliffe. Used by permission.

Abstract

Megaceras briansaltini Ratcliffe, new species, is described from Peru. A description, diagnosis, and illustrations are provided, and the new species is compared with M. morpheus Burmeister, with which it shares similarities.