Ammoecius brevis ERICHSON 1848
Creators: name: DellacaSa, M.
name: DellacaSa, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Ammoecius
Ammoecius brevis

description: Ammoecius brevis ERICHSON, 1848   (Figs 45–48, 81)  
 Ammoecius brevis ERICHSON, 1848: 907; HAROLD 1871: 11.   
 Aphodius (Ammoecius) brevis: REITTER 1892: 184; d’ ORBIGNY 1896: 207; SCHMIDT 1913: 125; SCHMIDT 1922: 68; BALTHASAR 1964: 79; BARAUD 1971: 68; DELLACASA M. 1988: 68.   
Type locality: “ Im mittleren und südlichen Deutschland”. [Germany.]  
Type depository: Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin.  
 Description – Length 3.5–4.5 mm. Short, oval, strongly convex, shiny, glabrous (Fig. 81). Black, clypeal margin faintly brown-reddish; legs piceous with brown-reddish tarsi; antennal club testaceous. Head with cupuliform epistoma finely irregularly microreticulate, thus sericeous, and imperceptibly punctured on disc; punctation laterally somewhat more distinct, irregularly granulose in front of feebly curved anterior transverse carina; clypeus angulately sinuate at middle, obtusely angulate at sides, distinctly bordered, border feebly upturned; genae obtuse, shortly ciliate, protruding more than eyes; frontal suture finely impressed; frons distinctly, finely, and sparsely punctured; epipharynx: Fig. 45; apex of corypha: Fig. 46. Pronotum transverse, somewhat narrower anteriorly, strongly convex, doubly punctured; large punctures deep, irregularly sparse, absent anteriorly on disc, denser on sides, mixed with much smaller, regularly scattered punctures; sides feebly rounded, thinly bordered, faintly inwardly sinuate before the obtusely rounded hind angles; base distinctly bisinuate, bordered. Scutellum regularly triangular, finely punctured at base. Elytra short, strongly convex, backwardly broadened and with epipleural carina subdenticulate at shoulder, deeply striate; striae with large and coarse punctures, strongly crenulate; interstices convex, almost imperceptibly punctured. Hind tibiae with superior apical spur longer than first tarsal segment; latter as long as following three combined. Male: pronotum relatively more transverse, less convex and with large punctures more sparse; middle tibiae with inferior apical spur very short and obliquely truncate apically; metasternalplatefeeblyconcave;aedeagus: Figs47–48.Female:pronotumrelativelylesstransverse, more convex and with large punctures more densely arranged; middle tibiae with inferior apical spur more elongate and regularly acuminate apically; metasternal plate flat.   
Distribution: Widely distributed in Europe (northwards up to Sweden, in south from Spain to Georgia, but absent in southern Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Greece and European Turkey). In Asia,recordedfromTurkmenistan,MongoliaandSiberia(Irkutskregion),butabsentinAsiaMinor.
description: Published as part of DellacaSa, M. & DellacaSa, G., 2002, Systematic Redefinition Of Taxa Belonging To The Genera Ahermodontus Báguena, 1930 And Ammoecius Mulsant, 1842, With Description Of The New Genus Vladimirellus (Coleoptera: Aphodiidae), pp. 269-316 in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 48 (4) on page 288, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12587419