Alloblackburneus aegrotus Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon 2011, new combination
Creators: name: Dellacasa, Marco
name: Dellacasa, Giovanni
name: Gordon, Robert D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aphodiidae
Alloblackburneus
Alloblackburneus aegrotus

description: Alloblackburneus aegrotus (Horn, 1870) new combination   
(Fig. 6-10)  
 Aphodius aegrotus Horn, 1870: 127; Horn 1887: 43; Schmidt 1922: 333 (subgenere incerto).   
 Aphodius campestris Blatchley, 1912: 330; Schmidt 1922: 334; Brown 1927: 164: Woodruff 1973: 85; Gordon 1983: 645; Harpootlian 2001: 29; Gordonand Skelley 2007: 353 (as synonym of B. aegrotus and lectotype designation).   
 Aphodius (Blackburneus) aegrotus; Dellacasa 1988: 83.   
 Aphodius (Blackburneus) campestris; Dellacasa 1988: 104.   
 Blackburneus aegrotus; Gordonand Skelley 2007: 353 (lectotype designation).   
 Typelocality. North Carolina [U.S.A.].   
 Type repository. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (U.S.A.) (type not examined).   
 Redescription. Length 3.0- 4.5 mm; oval-elongate, convex, shiny; head and pronotum glabrous, elytra laterally andtowardapex distinctly pubescent. Reddish-yellow; head, pronotum andelytral suture brownish-red; legs reddish-yellow; antennal club testaceous. Head with epistome feebly convex on disc, evenly finely sparsely punctured throughout; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, round at sides, not bordered but edge somewhat upturned, glabrous; genae round, sparsely ciliate; faintly protruding from the eyes; frontal suture deeply impressed; front very finely sparsely punctured. Pronotum moderately transverse, convex, dually punctured; large punctures, four to five times larger than small, denser on sides but almost lacking on disc; small fine punctures regularly scattered throughout but lacking on a longitudinal median areola; lateral margins feebly arcuate, thinly bordered, edge elongately sparsely ciliate; hind angles obliquely feebly truncate; truncation somewhat inwardly sinuate; base not bisinuate, thinly bordered. Scutellum flat, sparsely irregularly punctured. Elytra rather elongate, convex, slightly tapered toward apex, very finely striate; striae superficially punctured, weakly crenulate; interstriae very superficially microreticulate, indistinctly sparsely punctured; the tenth interstria pubescent in apical two thirds; the ninth in apical half; all other pubescent from preapical declivity to apical margin and therein more distinctly punctured. Hind tibiae superior apical spur elongate, narrowly spatulate and, in lateral view, very narrowly concave on apical two thirds; first segment of hind tarsi almost as long as superior apical spur of tibiae and as long as following three segments combined. Male: pronotum somewhat more transverse; metasternal plate posteriorly excavate with somewhat more deep median longitudinal groove; aedeagus Fig. 9-10. Female: pronotumsomewhat narrowed anteriorly; metasternalplate almostflat with superficial medianlongitudinal groove.   
 Material examined. USA, Florida (19 exx., DCGI); Alachua Co., 2.5 mi. SW of Archer, 21-28.VIII.1988, leg. P. Skelley (45 exx., DCGI); idem, 18-24.IX.1985, leg. P. Skelley (57 exx., DCGI); idem, 20-30.X.1988, leg. P. Skelley (4 exx., DCGI); Alachua Co., SW Archer, 20-27.XI.1998, leg. P. Skelley (21 exx., DCGI); Eau Gallie, 9.VIII.1938, leg. C. C. Goff (1 ex., DCGI); Enterprise, X.1926 (7 exx., DCGI); Gainesville, Bivens Arm Lake, 12-16.IV.2001, leg. P. Skelley (4 exx., DCGI); Highlands Co., Archbold Biol. Sta., 8 mi. S Lake Placid, 5.VII.1988, leg. P. Skelley (blacklight trap) (9 exx., DCGI); idem, 7.VII.1988, leg. P. Skelley (blacklight trap) (3 exx., DCGI); Pensacola, VI.1948, leg. I. Rosasco (1 ex., DCGI); Polk Co., Lake Streaty, 10.VIII.1938, leg. C. C. Goff (1 ex., DCGI); Georgia: Tifton, 6.X.1968, leg. J. A. Payne (Gopher tortoise dung trap) (10 exx., DCGI); North Carolina: Black Mts., VI.1911 (1 ex., DCGI); Tennessee: Green Co., Tusculum College, 1.VII.1946, leg. M. Wright (light trap) (1 ex., DCGI).   
 Distribution. U.S.A. (coastal sites from New Jersey to Florida; Alabama).   
 Bionomics. Ayear round coprophagous species, found in several kinds of mammal and gopher tortoise dung in sandy habitats were it may occur in large populations.
description: Published as part of Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D., 2011, Systematic revision of the American taxa belonging to the genera Alloblackburneus Bordat, 2009, and Blackburneus Schmidt, 1913, with description of seven new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), pp. 1-52 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (204) on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10090539