Phaeaphodius jouravliowi Reitter 1907
Creators: name: Dellacasa, Marco
name: Dellacasa, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aphodiidae
Phaeaphodius
Phaeaphodius jouravliowi

description: Phaeaphodius jouravliowi (Reitter, 1907)
(Figs. 18–23)
Aphodius (Phaeaphodius) jouravliowi Reitter, 1907: 408; Balthasar 1964: 285 (as synonym of dauricus); Dellacasa & Dellacasa 2006: 133.
Aphodius (Phaeaphodius) jouravliowi var. latonius Reitter, 1907: 409; Balthasar 1964: 285 (as color variation of Aphodius dauricus).
Phaeaphodius jouravliowi: Dellacasa & Dellacasa 2016: 144.
Type locality. Ural [Uralsk, im Steppenland südlich von Ural; ex original description].
Type depository. Aphodius jouravliowi: Magyar Természettudomàny Muzéum, Budapest, Hungary (type examined); Aphodius jouravliowi latonius: unknown to authors.
Redescription. Length 5.5–6.0 mm; elongate, moderately convex, rather dull, glabrous. Head, pronotum, and scutellum black, elytra dirty yellow (Fig. 20), sometimes elytra with juxtasutural interstria and sides shadowy piceous (Fig. 21); legs reddish brown, antennal club piceous. Head with epistome moderately convex, depressed toward clypeal margin, coarsely and somewhat irregularly punctate on disc; punctation confusedly subrugose distally; clypeus distinctly sinuate at middle, round on sides, thickly bordered, edge upturned, glabrous; genae obtusely round, setose, protruding from the eyes; frontal suture finely impressed, front distinctly irregularly punctate. Pronotum transverse, moderately convex, dually punctate; large punctures, five to six times larger than small punctures, denser on sides; fine small punctures rather regularly scattered throughout; lateral margins almost straight, thickly bordered, edge sparsely setose; hind angles widely truncate, truncation feebly sinuate inwardly; base faintly bisinuate, entirely bordered, the border crenulate by a series of contiguous punctures. Scutellum triangularly elongate, flat, irregularly punctate on basal half. Elytra moderately convex, subparallel-sided, rather deeply striate; striae crenulate; interstriae flat, superficially and finely microreticulate thus almost dull, near imperceptibly sparsely punctate. Metatibiae superior spur as long as first metatarsomere; latter as long as following 3 metatarsomeres combined. Male: frontal suture with vestiges of a median tubercle; pronotum more transverse, less convex and more sparsely punctate; protibiae spur stout, distinctly hooked apically; aedeagus Figs. 2 2–23. Female: frontal suture without tubercle; pronotum more convex, somewhat narrowed apically and more densely punctate; protibiae spur almost straight.
Distribution. Russia (Siberia, Ural, and Altai mountains).
Material examined. RUSSIA: West Siberia: Barnaulka, Sibiria occidentalis (1 specimen, ZMHB); Krasnojarsk, Jenisseisgeb [western Siberia] (1 specimen, DCG); Ural [ex original description: Uralsk, im Steppenland südlich von Ural] (1 specimen, male holotype, HNHM).
Bionomics. Unknown.
description: Published as part of Dellacasa, Marco & Dellacasa, Giovanni, 2016, Systematic revision of the genus Phaeaphodius Reitter, 1892 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), pp. 143-163 in Zootaxa 4162 (1) on page 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/254692