Oxyomus mariateresae Dellacasa &amp; Dellacasa &amp; Gordon 2014, new species
Creators: name: Dellacasa, Marco
name: Dellacasa, Giovanni
name: Gordon, Robert D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aphodiidae
Oxyomus
Oxyomus mariateresae

description: <i>Oxyomus mariateresae</i> new species (Figures 1–5) <b>Type locality.</b> Llano de las Flores, 17°26’37.1”N- 096°30’13.2”W, Oaxaca, Mexico. <b>Type repository.</b> Dellacasa collection, Genoa, Italy. <b>Description.</b> Length 3.0–4.0 mm, oblong, convex, almost dull, pubescent. Dark brownish-grey, anterior angles of pronotum and legs dark brown; antennal club blackish. Head with epistome moderately convex medially, alutaceous, laterally evenly coarsely not very closely punctured; punctures cariose and those toward genae near imperceptibly haired; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, round at sides, rather thickly bordered, edge anteriorly slightly reflexed, glabrous; genae obtusely round, sparsely ciliate, protruding from eyes; frontal suture finely impressed, somewhat raised at each side and at middle; front widely alutaceous, evenly coarsely punctured. Pronotum transverse, convex, faintly foveolate, longitudinally at middle and obliquely on each side, strongly alutaceous, evenly densely coarsely and somewhat irregularly punctured; punctures umbilicate, cariose, each one with rather short recumbent seta; lateral margins feebly arcuate, somewhat tapered before hind angles, thickly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles well defined, obtuse; base moderately bisinuate, finely bordered, edge crenulate. Scutellum sunken, alutaceous, superficially confusedly punctured. Elytra moderately convex, feebly widened posteriorly, with deep narrow striae, catenulate on disc, strongly crenulate; interstriae alutaceous, convex, subcarinate medially, densely, coarsely confusedly punctured and with two median longitudinal rows of short yellowish recumbent setae. Hind tibial superior spur as long as first tarsal segment; latter nearly as long as following three combined. Male: fore tibiae spur stout and inwardly curved apically; aedeagus Fig. 2–3. Female: fore tibial spur slender, acuminate and almost straight. <b>Type material.</b> <b>MEXICO: Oaxaca:</b> Llano de las Flores, 17°26’37.1”N- 096°30’13.2”W, Carretera Tuxtepec, Oaxaca; m 2600, 01.XII. 2003, leg. Martínez I. &amp; M. T. Suarez (<b>holotype</b>, male, and <b>allotype</b> DCGI; 1 <b>paratype</b>, male FSCA); Las Cumbres, Carretera Zachila, San Miguel Peras, m 2500, 05.VIII. 2000, leg. Martínez I. &amp; Reyes-Castillo P. (1 <b>paratype</b>, male DCGI). <b>Distribution.</b> Mexico (Oaxaca). <b>Etymology.</b> Named in honor of one of its collectors, Maria Teresa Suarez, of Instituto de Ecologia, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. <b>Biology.</b> Almost unknown; the few specimens of the type series were collected in August and in December.
description: Published as part of <i>Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni &amp; Gordon, Robert D., 2014, Oxyomus mariateresae new species of Mexican Aphodiini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), pp. 1-3 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (343)</i> on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5178666