Gonaphodioides skelleyi Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon 2012, new species
Creators: name: Dellacasa, Marco
name: Dellacasa, Giovanni
name: Gordon, Robert D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aphodiidae
Gonaphodioides
Gonaphodioides skelleyi

description: Gonaphodioides skelleyi new species
(Fig. 99-103)
Type locality. San Juan Chamula env., 16°46’56.4’’– 092°41’36.3’’W, m 2282, Chiapas, Mexico.
Type repository. Dellacasa Collection, Genoa, Italy.
Description. Length 5.0-6.0 mm, oblong, rather convex, moderately shiny, glabrous. Black; tarsi and antennal club dark piceous. Head with epistome feebly convex on disc, finely, evenly, not closely punctured throughout; clypeus faintly sinuate at middle, obtusely round at sides, finely bordered, edge glabrous, moderately reflexed; genae obtusely round, not ciliate, feebly protruding from the eyes; frontal suture obsolete; front almost evenly finely, rather sparsely punctured. Pronotum transverse, convex, dually punctured; large punctures, five to six times larger than small ones, sparsely irregularly scattered on sides only; small, very fine punctures evenly not closely sparse throughout, medially extremely fine; lateral margins feebly arcuate, rather thickly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles obliquely truncate, truncation feebly inwardly sinuate; base distinctly bisinuate. Scutellum slightly convex, finely irregularly punctured on basal half. Elytra oval-elongate, feebly broadened posteriorly, minutely denticulate at shoulder; striae fine, superficially, not closely punctured, faintly crenulate, somewhat deeper on preapical declivity; interstriae flat, near imperceptibly alutaceous and with extremely fine sparse punctures. Hind tibiae upper spur shorter than first tarsal segment; first tarsal segment somewhat longer than following three segments combined. Male: head and pronotum relatively more transverse, less convex and more sparsely punctured; aedeagus Fig. 102-103. Female: head and pronotum relatively less transverse, more convex and somewhat more closely punctured.
Type material. MEXICO: Chiapas: San Juan Chamula env., 16°56’56.4"N – 092°41’36.3"W, m 2282, 21.VI.2007, leg. Dellacasa M., Fresi C. & Martínez I., horse dung (male holotype, allotype and 1 paratype, DCGI); 6 mi. E San Cristobal L. C., 07.V.1969, leg. Howden H. F. (1 paratype, CNCI); 8 mi. NE San Cristobal L. C., 01.V.1969, leg. Howden H. F. (1 paratype, CNCI); 7 mi. SE San Cristobal, 09.V.1969, leg. Howden H. F. (1 paratype, CNCI); 3 mi. NW San Cristobal L. C., 31.V.1969, leg. Howden H. F. (1 paratype, CNCI); 5 Km W San Cristobal de las Casas, 8000’, 13-16.VIII.1969, leg. Peck S. & J., pine-oak forest (2 paratypes, CNCI, DCGI); 10 mi. SE Teopisca, 11.V.1969, leg. Martin J. & N. (1 paratype, CNCI).
Distribution. Known from the type locality only.
Etymology. Named in honor of Paul E. Skelley, collections manager of Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, Florida.
Bionomics. Almost unknown. Some of the specimens of the type series were collected in horse dung.
description: Published as part of Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D., 2012, Systematic revision of Gonaphodiellus taxa, with description of two new genera and fourteen new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), pp. 1-41 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (230) on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174222