.....Guide Home Taxa Map

Keys to Taxa

Catalogs Gallery Search
 
 

Pseudogonaphodiellus Dellacasa, Gordon, and Dellacasa 2007
Pseudogonaphodiellus Dellacasa, Gordon, and Dellacasa 2007: 139.

 
Pseudogonaphodiellus zdzislawae Dellacasa, Gordon, and Dellacasa
Photo by P. Skelley.
Classification
Superfamily.....
Family........... Subfamily......
Tribe.............
Scarabaeoidea
Scarabaeidae
Aphodiinae
Aphodiini
 

 

Aphodiinae Overview

Aphodiinae Key

Aphodiini Key
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Type species. Pseudogonaphodiellus zdzislawae Dellacasa,Gordon, and Dellacasa 2007: 140, by original designation.

 
 
Diagnosis. Body length 5-6 mm, elongate, somewhat flattened anteriorly, dorsally mottled black and yellowish. Head smooth, lacking frontal tubercles. Pronotum with basal marginal line. Elytral humerus denticulate; intervals flat. Protibial dorsal surface impunctate.
 
 
 
 
Distribution. Mexico.
 
Composition. Pseudogonaphodiellus contains a single species.

Pseudogonaphodiellus zdzislawae
Dellacasa, Gordon, and Dellacasa 2007: 140, Mexico.
 
 
 
 
Life History. Unknown. Adults have been collected in horse dung.
 

Larvae. Unknown.

 

References:
Dellacasa, M., R. D. Gordon, and G. Dellacasa. 2007. Pseudogonaphodiellus zdzislawae, new genus and new species of Mexican Aphodiini (Scarabaeoidea: Aphodiidae). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 50(B)(2): 139-142.

 
 
 
 
   
.... Entomology Home Research UNSM Entomology Database Scarab Workers

Author: Paul Skelley

Generated on: 05/MAY/08.....Last modified: 05/MAY/08
University of Nebraska State Museum - Division of Entomology