Neosisyphus quadricollis
Creators: name: Daniel, Gimo M.
name: Davis, Adrian Lv.
name: Sole, Catherine L.
name: Scholtz, Clarke H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Neosisyphus
Neosisyphus quadricollis

description: <i>Neosisyphus quadricollis</i> (Gory, 1833) (Figs. 26, 27A) Montreuil 2015b: 20. <i>Sisyphus quadricollis</i> Gory, 1833 Gory 1833: 9; Harold 1869: 985; Péringuey 1901: 87; Arrow 1927: 459; Haaf 1955: 345; Ferreira 1972: 829. <b>Type locality</b>: Cape of Good Hope. <b>Size</b>: Male: length: 13.5–11; width: 6.5–5.4; female: length: 13.8–11; width: 6.5–5.5. <b>Diagnosis</b>: <i>N. quadricollis</i> is close in appearance to <i>N. kuehni.</i> However, <i>N. quadricollis</i> may be separated by a combination of the following characters: elytra emarginated laterally with the concavity of the margin distinctly deep in the middle; the projecting metatrochanter in males is one-third of the total length of the metafemur; the metafemur lacks spines. <b>Examined non-type material:</b> See Supplementary information. <b>Distribution</b>: <i>N. quadricollis</i> has been recorded from deep sands and natural shrubland under drier, warmer winter rainfall climate on the southwest coast of South Africa (Western Cape) (Davis 1987, 1997; Davis et. al. 2008). In this region, it is active for a short period between late October to late December. It also has been collected between November and March at Willowmore and Lemoenkloof (Eastern Cape) in karoo vegetation of the late summer rainfall region (Fig. 28).
description: Published as part of <i>Daniel, Gimo M., Davis, Adrian Lv., Sole, Catherine L. &amp; Scholtz, Clarke H., 2020, Taxonomic review of the tribe Sisyphini sensu stricto Mulsant, 1842 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in southern Africa, including new species descriptions, pp. 1-61 in Insect Systematics &amp; Evolution 51 (1)</i> on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00002195, http://zenodo.org/record/3786629
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