Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida
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Date of this Version
2-24-2022
Citation
Skelley PE, Keller O. 2022. A third species of Haroldiellus Gordon and Skelley, 2007 from Mexico and Central America (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: Aphodiini). Insecta Mundi 0916: 1–11.
Abstract
Haroldiellus woodruffi Skelley and Keller, new species, (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: Aphodiini), from Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama is described. An updated key for the genus, updated distributions, and diagnoses for the other two species are provided.
Se describe la nueva especie Haroldiellus woodruffi Skelley y Keller (Coleoptera: Sacarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: Aphodiinae) de Costa Rica, Guatemala, México y Panamá. Se provee una clave, distribuciones y diagnosis actualizadas para las otras dos especies.
Worldwide, the scarabaeid subfamily Aphodiinae Leach, 1815 (when including Aegialiinae Laporte, 1840) consists of about 3200 species in 14 tribes and around 280 genera (Nikolajev 2008; Skelley 2008; Minkina 2020; Catalogue of Life 2021). Revisionary work has been recently accomplished for most of the New World fauna (PES pers. observation), yet new species are still being discovered and need description. The genus Haroldiellus (Type species: Aphodius sallei Harold 1863), consists of two species which are known from the United States south to Colombia and Jamaica, Hispaniola and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the West Indies. Here we describe a third species in the genus Haroldiellus Gordon and Skelley, 2007, present a key to the species in the genus, and provide diagnoses and updated distributions for H. lansbergei (Harold, 1874) and H. sallei (Harold, 1863).
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