Sisyphus impressipennis Lansberge 1886
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
Sisyphus
Sisyphus impressipennis

description: <i>Sisyphus impressipennis</i> Lansberge, 1886 (Figs. 11, 12A). Lansberge 1886: 73–74, Gillet 1911: 23; Arrow 1927: 462–5; Haaf 1955: 362; Schefer-Fischer 1992: 124, Schaefer-Fischer, 2001:58, Montreuil 2015a: 96. <i>Sisyphus transvaalensis</i> Péringuey, 1908 Péringuey 1908: 557; Arrow 1927: 462; Haaf 1955: 364; Balthasar 1968: 954; Ferreira 1972: 807; Montreuil 2015a: 96 <i>Sisyphus callosipes</i> Arrow, 1909 Arrow 1909: 517; Arrow 1927: 462; Haaf 1955: 365; Montreuil 2015a: 96. <b>Type locality</b>: Humpata (Angola). <b>Size</b>: Male: length: 10.0– 7.1 mm; width: 5.6–4.0 mm; Female: length: 10.1– 7.5 mm, width 5.1–4.0 mm. <b>Diagnosis</b>: <i>S. impressipennis</i> is easily distinguished from other species in the <i>costatus</i> species-group by bearing an anvil-shaped projection on the mid-ventral edge of the metafemur, mainly in males. <b>Examined type material</b> <b> <i>Sisyphus callosipes</i> Arrow, 1909</b> : Lectotype: (1&amp;male; NHML), / MOZAMBIQUE, Nyassa /, /coll: Simons &amp; Fry, 1905/, handwritten on brown label / <i>Sisyphus callopsis,</i> Arrow <i>type</i> /, / <i>Sisyphus callopsis</i> det. ME. Bacchus, 1975; Lectotype /. Paralectotype: (1&amp;female; NHML) / Mozambique, Nyassa /, /coll: Simons &amp; Fry, 1905/, handwritten on brown label/, / <i>Sisyphus callopsis</i> det. ME. Bacchus, 1975; Paralectotype /. (1&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; NHML), / RDC, 150–200 miles, W. of Kambove (3500–4500 ft)/, /coll: Neave, 18.10.1907 /, / <i>Sisyphus callopsis</i> det. ME. Bacchus, 1975. <b> <i>Sisyphus transvaalensis</i> Péringuey, 1908</b> : Lectotype (designated here): (1&amp;male; SAM): / SOUTH AFRICA, Transvaal, Pietersburg /, handwritten on brown label, / <i>Sisyphus transvaalensis</i> Péringuey /, /red label, /TYPE/ (Lectotype det. GM. Daniel 2016). <b>Examined non-type material</b>: See Supplementary information. <b>Distribution</b>: <i>S. impresssipennis</i> was described from south-west Angola. It is distributed in east-central and southern Africa (Davis et al. 2005) where it is associated with shaded areas in savanna and dense miombo woodland. It has been recorded from lowlands in northern South Africa, in upland Chirinda Forest (Zimbabwe), Mt Mulanje (Malawi), Central Mozambique, Manyara National Park (Tanzania) and Kambove (Republic Democratic of Congo) (Fig. 13C). <b>Remarks</b>: Examination of <i>S. callosipes</i> and <i>S. transvaalensis</i> type material showed that the external morphology and genitalia are similar to <i>S. impressipennis</i>. Therefore, we regard both species as junior synonyms of <i>S. impressipennis</i>, as previously proposed by Paschalidis (1974) and Montreuil (2015a).
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 pages 28-29, DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00002195, http://zenodo.org/record/3786629
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