Neotrichaphodioides woytkowskii Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Skelley 2010, new species
Creators: name: Dellacasa, Marco
name: Dellacasa, Giovanni
name: Skelley, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aphodiidae
Neotrichaphodioides
Neotrichaphodioides woytkowskii

description: Neotrichaphodioides woytkowskii, new species   
(Fig. 25-29)  
 Type locality. San Idelfonso Hills, Dept. Amazonas, Peru.   
 Type repository. Snow Entomological Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.   
 Description. Length 7.0-8.0 mm; oblong elongate, moderately convex, shiny. Piceous brown; clypeal margins and pronotal sides paler, legs dark brown, antennal club piceous. Head with epistome almost flat, evenly finely sparsely punctured; clypeus subtruncate anteriorly, widely rounded at sides, thickly bordered, edge glabrous, anteriorly slightly reflexed; genae subacutely angulate, near imperceptibly bristled, protruding beyond eyes; frontal suture finely impressed, mutic; front evenly, finely sparsely punctured. Pronotum transverse, moderately convex, dually punctured; large, coarse punctures, five to six times larger than small, irregularly sparse on sides, lacking on disc; small, fine punctures evenly scattered throughout, somewhat more superficial and sparser on disc; lateral margins nearly straight, thickly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles subtruncate, almost imperceptibly bristled; base feebly bisinuate, not bordered. Scutellum flat, impunctate. Elytra oval elongate, moderately convex, deeply striate; striae fine, superficially punctured, subcrenulate; intervals feebly convex, sparsely irregularly finely punctured on basal half; more densely and deeply punctured in posterior half. Hind tibiae superior apical spur shorter than first tarsal segment; latter as long as following three combined. Male: pronotum relatively more transverse, less convex and more sparsely punctured; posterior half of elytra with short, dense pubescence; aedeagus Fig. 26-27. Female: pronotum relatively less transverse, more convex and more densely punctured; elytra glabrous.   
 Type material. Holotype male (SEMC) label data “/ San Idelfonso Hills, 1900-4000 masl, Dept. Amazonas / Peru, S. A., July 26, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3755/”. Allotype female (SEMC) label data “/ Dept. Amazonas, Collected on way to Chachapoyas as from San Idelfonso / Peru, S. A., July 30, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3755/”.   
 Additional paratypes (17): PERU: Dept. Amazonas: San Idelfonso Hills, 1900-4000 m asl, July 26, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3755 (2 SEMC); same data except, July 3, 1936 (2 DCGI); same data except, July 27, 1936 (3 SEMC); same data except, July 30, 1936 (2 SEMC); same data except, July 31, 1936 (2 SEMC); Collected on way to Chachapoyas from San Idelfonso, Aug. 1, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3756 (2 SEMC); same data except, Aug. 2, 1936 (1 FSCA); San Idelfonso Hills, 1900-4000 m asl, Aug. 3, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3756 (1 FSCA); Vicinity of Chachapoyas, Aug. 4, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3756 (1 SEMC). Dept. San Martin: Vicinity of Rioja, Nov. 23, 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3759 (1 SEMC). Many of the paratypes have broken legs or tarsi.   
 Distribution. Known from Peru, Departments of Amazonas and San Martin.   
 Etymology. Named in honor of F. Woytkowski, a naturalist active in Peru from the 1930s until the early 1960s who collected all the specimens of typical series.
description: Published as part of Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Skelley, Paul E., 2010, Neotrichaphodioides, new genus of Neotropical Aphodiini, with description of a new species from Peru (Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), pp. 1-12 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (133) on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164776