Alloblackburneus fordi Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon 2011, new combination
Creators: name: Dellacasa, Marco
name: Dellacasa, Giovanni
name: Gordon, Robert D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aphodiidae
Alloblackburneus
Alloblackburneus fordi

description: Alloblackburneus fordi (Gordon, 1974) new combination   
(Fig. 21-25)  
 Aphodius fordi Gordon, 1974: 455.   
 Aphodius (Amidorus) fordi; Dellacasa 1988: 130.   
 Blackburneus fordi; Gordonand Skelley 2007: 356.   
 Typelocality. Jekyll Island, Georgia [U.S.A.].   
 Type repository. United States National Museum. Washington (paratype examined).   
 Redescription. Length 3.0- 3.5 mm; slender, oval elongate, convex; head subshiny, pronotum weakly shiny, elytra dull; head glabrous, pronotumwith long sparse setae on sides, elytra biseriately pubescent. Piceous; clypeal margins and pronotal sides reddish-brown; elytra brownish; legs reddish-brown; antennal club testaceous. Head with epistome very superficially microreticulate thus almost shiny, faintly convex on disc, finely somewhat irregularly punctured; punctation finer distally, sparser on disc; clypeus very feebly sinuate at middle, round at sides, extremely finely bordered, edge distinctly upturned, glabrous; genae round, sparsely elongately ciliate, not protruding from the eyes; frontal suture finely impressed; front evenlysparsely punctured. Pronotum weakly transverse, convex, distinctly microreticulate thus weakly shiny, dually somewhat irregularly punctured but with a basal median narrow longitudinal impunctate areola, and with long, erect, sparse setae on sides near lateral margins; large punctures, three to four times larger than small ones, denser and coarser on sides; small punctures subregularly scattered throughout but more superficial on disc; lateral margins feebly arcuate, faintly crenulate, fimbriate with long, sparse setae; hind angles round, fringed with rather elongate setae; base feebly bisinuate, distinctly bordered, with fringe of rather long setae denser medially. Scutellum somewhat excavate, distinctly microreticulate thus almost dull, sparsely irregularly punctured. Elytra elongate, subparallel-sided, convex, strongly microreticulatethus dull; epipleural carina sparsely fringed by rather short setae; striae fine, superficially notclosely punctured, subcrenulate; interstriae flat with two rows of rough setigerous punctures; rows rather irregular on odd interstriae; most setae decumbent except some on odd interstriae. Hind tibiae superior apical spur shorter than first tarsal segment; latter as long as following three segments combined. Male: metasternal plate with median longitudinal groove somewhat more deep, posteriorly foveolate; aedeagus Fig. 24-25. Female: metasternal plate with median longitudinal groove somewhat moresuperficial, posteriorly not foveolate.   
 Material examined. USA, Georgia: Camden Co., Little Cumberland I., 29.VII.1975, leg. W. E. Steiner (1 ex., DCGI); Jekyll Is., 17.VII.1971, leg. E. J. Ford Jr. (light trap) (1 ex., paratype, DCGI).   
 Distribution. U.S.A. (Florida, Georgia).   
 Bionomics. Spring and summer species with bionomy almost unknown. The studied specimens of this extremely rare species were collected at light in July.
description: Published as part of Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D., 2011, Systematic revision of the American taxa belonging to the genera Alloblackburneus Bordat, 2009, and Blackburneus Schmidt, 1913, with description of seven new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), pp. 1-52 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (204) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10090539