Parataenius Balthasar 1961
Creators: name: Stebnicka, Z. Teresa
name: Skelley, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aphodiidae
Parataenius

description: Key to the species of Parataenius   
 1. Head coarsely wrinkled, wrinkles broken into segments (Fig. 1-3, 7-9); pronotum with coarse punctures widely scattered along base and on sides................................................................. 2   
 — Head with fine, close, slightly rugose wrinkles (Fig. 4-6, 10-12); pronotum with fine to moderate, close punctures everywhere....................................................................................................... 4   
 2(1). Body elongate, moderately convex, reddish brown (Fig. 1, 7); meso- and metatibiae slightly dilated apically, terminal spur of protibia in male hooked inwardly at apex. Argentina, Bolivia....................................................................................................................  P. selvae, new species    
 — Body oblong-oval, strongly convex, dark castaneous to black (Fig. 2-3, 8-9); meso- and metatibia distinctly dilated apically, terminal spur of protibia in both sexes straight............................ 3   
 3(2). Color black; coarse pronotal punctures very few, concentrated on sides (Fig. 2, 8); elytra about 2 times as long as pronotum. Argentina................................................  P. estero, new species    
 — Color reddish brown; coarse pronotal punctures more numerous, scattered in posterior half of pronotum and on sides (Fig. 3, 9); elytra about 2.5 times as long as pronotum. Widely distributed ............................................................................................................. P. simulator (Harold)   
 4(1). Pronotal punctures everywhere fine, uniformly distributed (Fig. 4, 10), punctures separated by about one puncture diameter. Southern South America........................  P. derbesis (Solier)    
 — Pronotal punctures everywhere mixed fine and moderate (Fig. 5-6, 11-12), punctures separated by 1 to 3 times the diameter of a puncture.............................................................................. 5   
 5(4). Color yellowish brown; punctures of pronotum shallow, close, separated by about one times their diameter (Fig. 5, 11); elytra microreticulate, intervals finely punctate throughout. Argentina..........................................................................................................  P. brunneus (Schmidt)    
 — Color reddish brown; punctures of pronotum deep, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter (Fig. 6, 12); elytra shiny, smooth, intervals impunctate. Argentina...........................................................................................................................................................  P. martinezi, new species
description: Published as part of Stebnicka, Z. Teresa & Skelley, Paul E., 2009, Taxonomic redefinition of the genera Parataenius Balthasar and Pseudataenius Brown, with descriptions of three new species (Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: Eupariini), pp. 1-18 in Insecta Mundi 2009 (66) on pages 2-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5404983