Neosisyphus infuscatus
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 infuscatus

description: <i>Neosisyphus infuscatus</i> (Klug, 1855) (Figs. 20, 21B) Montreuil 2015b: 10; <i>Sisyphus infuscatus</i> Klug, 1855 Klug 1855: 651; Harold 1869: 984; Gillet 1911: 23; Arrow 1927: 464; Haaf 1955: 344; Ferreira 1972: 811. <b>Size</b>: Male: length: 8.1– 7.1 mm; width: 4.8–3.6. Female: length: 8.0–7.0 mm; width: 4.5–3.0 mm <b>Type locality</b>: Sena, Sofala, Mozambique <b>Diagnosis</b>: <i>N. infuscatus</i> bears a sharp mid-posterior metafemoral spine as opposed to the more obtuse spine in <i>N. spinipes. N. infuscatus</i> also differs by lacking the prominent sharp-angled protrusion on the basal-posterior edge of the mesotibia. Parameres of <i>N. infuscatus</i> are distinctly bent inwards at the apex (Fig. 21B). <b>Examined type material</b> Paralectotype (designated here): (&amp;male; SAM) /Sena/, <i>Sisyphus fortuitus</i>, PJ/, red label / <i>Type SAM, 2677</i> / <i>spinipes</i> Thunb, det. Haaf 1954/, / <i>Sisyphus infuscatus</i> Klug, det. KM. Paschalidis 1975/, / Paralectotype, det: GM, Daniel, 2016 /. <b>Examined non-type material</b>: See Supplementary information. <b>Distribution</b>: <i>N. infuscatus</i> is an East to southern African species, associated with lowland dry savanna (Fig. 22).
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 page 49, DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00002195, http://zenodo.org/record/3786629
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