Sisyphus costatus
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 costatus

description: <i>Sisyphus costatus</i> (Thunberg, 1818) (Figs. 11, 12B). Peringuéy 1901:100; Gillet 1912:22; Arrow 1927:458; Haaf 1955:355–6; Ferreira 1972: 794–5; Harold 1869:984 <i>Ateuchus costatus</i> Thunberg, 1818 Thunberg 1818:412 <b>Size</b>: Male: length: 5.3– 4.8 mm, width: 3.0–2.0 mm. Female: length: 5.3– 4.2 mm, width: 2.6– 2 mm. <b>Type locality</b>: (Cape of Good Hope) South Africa <b>Diagnosis</b>: <i>S. costatus</i> is close in appearance to <i>S. australis</i> <b>sp. n</b>. In both species, the elytral interstriae bear alternating rows of well-developed or less-developed setae (Fig. 11F). However, <i>S. costatus</i> is distinguished by an upcurved anterior clypeal edge and a concavity between the medial clypeal teeth. In addition, it lacks a carina between the clypeus and the frons (Fig. 11G). <b>Examined type material</b> (1&amp;female; SMNH) Lectotype (designated here): Red label / Uppsala University Zoology Museum; Thunberg, saml.nr. 3206., <i>Ateuchus costatus</i>, Cap. minutus. F. TYP/ / Lectotype, det. GM Daniel, 2016 /. <b>Examined non-type material</b>: See Supplementary information. <b>Distribution</b>: <i>S. costatus</i> has been recorded in moist upland savanna and highland grassland (Davis et al. 1999, Davis et al. 2005) from the Eastern Cape to the north of South Africa (Fig. 13). <b>Remarks</b>: The species was described by Thunberg (1818) as <i>Ateuchus costatus.</i> Gillet (1912) transferred Thunberg’s species to the genus <i>Sisyphus.</i>
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 29-30, DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00002195, http://zenodo.org/record/3786629
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