Bothynus condacki Duarte & Grossi 2020, new species
Creators: name: Duarte, Paulo R. M.
name: Grossi, Paschoal C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dynastidae
Bothynus
Bothynus condacki

description: Bothynus condacki Duarte & Grossi, new species
(Figs. 6 A–B; 8F; 9F; 12F)
Diagnosis. Bothynus condacki is similar to B. stenelus. However, B. condacki can be distinguished by the following characters: metatrochanter with acute apex (Fig. 6B) (apex rounded in B. stenellus); parameres with rounded lateral flaps, and with a strong apical contraction at inner margin of right paramere (Fig. 8F).
Etymology. The specific epithet is a tribute to the collector of the holotype, João Condack, who is an expert on Pteridophyta.
Type material. Holotype male dissected. Brasil: Minas Gerais: Conceição do Ibitipoca, 28.XII.1998, J.P. Condack—(CERPE).
Description. Holotype male (Fig. 6A). Body length: 24.0 mm. Body width: 13.mm. Color: Completely dark. Head: Clypeus subpentagonal, densely punctate, glabrous, apex with 2 short teeth. Frontoclypeal suture with 2 small, transverse tubercles. Interocular width equals 3.3 transverse eye diameter; frons with surface coarsely ru- gopunctate, with scarce setae scattered laterally near eyes. Mouthparts: Mandibles tridentate; apical and medial teeth triangular, basal tooth lobed and smaller than previous tooth. Maxilla with quadridentate galea; 2 strong apical teeth, 2 weak basal teeth. Mentum subtriangular, surrounded with setose punctures, discal area slightly convex, glabrous. Pronotum: Strongly convex posteriorly in lateral view; anterior area with a small apical tubercle followed by a, rounded shaped concavity, moderately deep. Discal and lateral areas finely punctate; concavity punctate in 2 areas at sides, anteriorly with dense, C-shaped and coalescent punctures, becoming moderately punctate toward posterior area. Scutellar shield: Subparabolic shaped, smooth, 1.7 times wider than long. Elytra: Surface nearly completely smooth, punctures inconspicuous (only observed under 90X magnification), longitudinal striae barely marked. Legs: Protarsomere V with 1 ventro-basal tooth; protarsomere IV extending ventrally, nearly reaching the apex of the ventro-basal tooth of tarsomere V. Metatrochanter with acute apex (Fig. 6B). Abdomen: Ventrite I completely, densely setose, II–VI moderately setose on sides, becoming gradually weak toward disc; discal area glabrous. Tergite VII with stridulatory apparatus formed by a band of innumerous, transverse, finely marked carinae. Tergite VIII nearly smooth, only with transverse, oval shaped punctures, confined to disc. Aedeagus: Parameres in caudal view (Fig. 8F), nearly symmetric, middle area with narrow outer margins, apical half with lateral flaps distinctly wider than basal half, apex of the right paramere with a strong contraction at inner margin. In lateral view, apex shortened, downcurved (Fig. 9F).
Female. Unknown.
Geographic distribution: Brazil: Minas Gerais (Fig. 12F). Bothynus condacki is known only from southeastern Brazil, in a locality dominated by Cerrado and open Rupestrian fields. This is the only species of the B. entellus species group that occurs in a xeric habitat, the other species are found in very wet, forested habitats.
description: Published as part of Duarte, Paulo R. M. & Grossi, Paschoal C., 2020, Bothynus entellus (LePeletier & Serville) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) species group: taxonomic revision and description of two new species, pp. 101-121 in Zootaxa 4750 (1) on pages 113-118, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3702869