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Xenoheptaulacus Hinton 1934
Xenoheptaulacus Hinton 1934: 613.

 
Xenoheptaulacus tricostatus (Harold)
Photo by P. Skelley.
Classification
Superfamily.....
Family........... Subfamily......
Tribe.............
Scarabaeoidea
Scarabaeidae
Aphodiinae
Aphodiini
 

 

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Type species. Xenoheptaulacus carinator Hinton 1934: 614 (= Oxyomus tricostatus Harold 1869: 101) by monotypy.

 
 
Diagnosis. Body length 3.5-4.0 mm, elongate, flattened, pale brown. Head smooth, lacking frontal tubercles. Clypeal margin rounded. Head and pronotum distinctly, entirely pubescent, surface densely punctate. Pronotum laterally fringed with long setae. Elytra lacking humeral tooth; intervals alternate between distinctly carinate and distinctly flattened. Protibial dorsal surface punctate. Metatibial apical spinules irregularly unequal in length.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Distribution. Colombia, Panama, Venezuela.
 
Composition. Xenoheptaulacus contains a single species.

Xenoheptaulacus tricostatus
(Harold 1869: 101) [Oxyomus], Panama, Colombia, Venezuela.
                  = Xenoheptaulacus carinator Hinton 1934: 614.
 
 
 
 
 
Life History. Unknown.
 

Larvae. Unknown.

 

References:
Dellacasa, G., P. Bordat and M. Dellacasa. 2001. A revisional essay of world genus-group taxa of Aphodiinae (Coleoptera: Aphodiidae). Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana 79: 1-482.

 
 
 
   
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