Alloblackburneus saylori Dellacasa &amp; Dellacasa &amp; Gordon 2011, new combination
Creators: name: Dellacasa, Marco
name: Dellacasa, Giovanni
name: Gordon, Robert D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aphodiidae
Alloblackburneus
Alloblackburneus saylori

description: <i>Alloblackburneus saylori</i> (Hinton, 1934) new combination (Fig. 51-55) <i>Aphodius saylori</i> Hinton, 1934: 192; Blackwelder 1944: 213. <i>Aphodius</i> (<i>Blackburneus</i>) <i>saylori</i>; Dellacasa 1988: 147. <i>Blackburneus saylori</i>; Skelley et al. 2007: 2. <b>Type locality.</b> Real de Arriba, District of Temescaltepec [Estado de México, Mexico]. <b>Type repository.</b> United States National Museum. Washington (paratype examined). <b>Redescription.</b> Length 3.0- 4.5 mm; oblong, convex, shiny, glabrous. Piceous; clypeal margin, pronotal sides and elytra brownish-red; legs pale reddish; antennal club testaceous. Head with epistome moderately convex, evenly rather finely sparsely punctured; punctation somewhat coarser distally, sparser on disc; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, round at sides, rather thinly bordered, edge somewhat upturned, glabrous; genae obtusely round, near imperceptibly ciliate, feebly but distinctly protruding from theeyes; frontal suture finely impressed; front more sparsely punctured than epistome. Pronotum moderately transverse, convex, dually punctured; large punctures, five to six times larger than small ones, irregularly sparse on sides, lacking on disc; small very fine punctures evenly scattered throughout, somewhat finer on disc and lacking on a longitudinal median areola at basal pronotal half; lateral margins feebly arcuate, rather thickly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles obtusely round; base arcuate, feebly bisinuate, thinly bordered. Scutellum flat, finely sparsely punctured on basal half. Elytra oval elongate, feebly broadened posteriorly, more or less distinctly denticulate at shoulder, finely striate; striae superficially punctured, not crenulate; interstriae flat or nearly flat, extremely finely sparsely punctured. Hind tibiae superior apical spur regularly acuminate, somewhat shorter than first tarsal segment; latter nearly as long as following three segments combined. Male: head somewhat more sparsely and less coarsely punctured; pronotum not narrowed frontwardly; aedeagus Fig. 54-55. Female: head somewhat more densely coarsely punctured; pronotum somewhat narrowed frontwardly. <b>Material examined.</b> <b>MEXICO, Colima:</b> El Tapeiztle, Municipio Minatitlán, Sierra de Manantlán, m 2300, 13.VII.1989, leg. L. Zivera (pastizal) (3 exx., DCGI); <b>Durango:</b> 7 mi SW Buenos Aires, 8800', 28.VII.1973, leg. A. Newton (4 exx., DCGI); 25 mi. W Durango, 23.VI.1964, leg. H. F. Howden (4 exx., CNCI; 1 ex., DCGI); 26.5 mi SW Durango, 21.VII.1973, leg. A. Newton (3 exx., DCGI); Minillas, Res. Biosf. “La Michilia”, 9-14.VIII.1989, leg. S. Anduaga (pastizal, excremento fresco de vaca) (3 exx., DCGI); <i>idem</i>, 23 o 25’29”N- 104 o 09’08”W, m 2300, 30.VI.2004, leg. C. Huerta &amp; S. Anduaga (3 exx., DCGI); <i>idem</i>, IX.2003, leg. C. Huerta &amp; S. Anduaga (5 exx., DCGI); Molinillos, Municipio Durango, 23 o 38’N- 105 o 03’W, m 2400, 23.VII.2006, leg. S. Anduaga &amp; K. Grajales (bosque pino) (7 exx., DCGI); Rancho Paraiso de los Santos, Piedra Herrada, Res. Biosf. “La Michilia”, 23 o 23’23.5”N- 104 o 14’50.1”W, m 2480, 2.VII.2004, leg. C. Huerta &amp; S. Anduaga (bosque pino-encino) (2 exx., DCGI); 24 mi. W La Ciudad, 8.VII.1964, leg. H. F. Howden (1 ex., CNCI); <i>idem</i>, 19.VII.1964, leg. H. F. Howden (1 ex., CNCI); <b>Jalisco:</b> 3 mi. NE Mazamitla, 12.VII.1973, leg. A. Newton (1 ex., DCGI); <b>México:</b> Temascaltepec, 4.VI.1979, leg. M. Zunino (1 ex., DCGI); Temescaltepec [= Temascaltepec], Real de Arriba, VIII.1933, leg. H. E. Hinton &amp; R. L. Usinger (2 exx., paratypes, USNM; 2 exx., paratypes, DCGI); <b>Michoacán:</b> Mazamitla, 24.VII.1953, leg. C. &amp; P. Vaurie, Rockefeller Exp. (1 ex., DCGI); rd. Patzcuaro-Uruapan, Planta PEMEX Diablo de Zirahuén, 19 o 29’N- 101 o 48’W, m 2200, 23.VII.2001, leg. M. Dellacasa &amp; I. Martínez (2 exx., DCGI); <b>Quintana Roo:</b> Palmeras, Playa Azul, 20.VII.1980, leg. M. Zunino (1 ex., DCGI); <b>Sinaloa:</b> 38 mi NE Concordia, 19.VI.1973, leg. A. Newton (2 exx., DCGI); 26.5 mi. SW Durango, 21.VII.1973, leg. A. Newton (3 exx., DCGI). <b>Distribution.</b> Mexico (Colima, Durango, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Quintana Roo, Sinaloa). <b>Bionomics.</b> Late Spring and Summer coprophagous species found in cow dung, sometimes in wooded areas.
description: Published as part of <i>Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni &amp; Gordon, Robert D., 2011, Systematic revision of the American taxa belonging to the genera Alloblackburneus Bordat, 2009, and Blackburneus Schmidt, 1913, with description of seven new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), pp. 1-52 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (204)</i> on page 13