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Stebnickiella Skelley 2007
Stebnickiella Skelley 2007: 13.

 
Stebnickella zosterixys Skelley.
Photo by P. Skelley.
Classification
Superfamily .... Scarabaeoidea
Family ............ Scarabaeidae
Subfamily ....... Aphodiinae
Tribe .............. Odontolochini
 
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Type species. Stebnickiella zosteryxys Skelley 2007: 14, by original designation.

 
 
Diagnosis. Body length 3.3 mm, elongate, robust, reddish-brown. Head broad, somewhat flattened. Clypeal margin without small teeth, thin laterally, thickened toward middle where double edged, with small median tooth projecting ventrally. Pronotum tumid in front, constricted basally; sides directed ventrally, with clypeus forming cavity for fore legs; lateral margin smoothly rounded to basal constriction. Elytral striae strongly punctured; intevals convex. Meso- and metatibia weakly widened to apex.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Distribution. Peru.
 
Composition. Stebnickiella presently contains one species.

Stebnickiella zosterixys
Skelley 2007: 14, Peru.
 
 
 
Life History. Unknown.
 
Larvae. Unknown.
 

References:
Skelley, P. E. 2007. New South American taxa of Odontolochini Stebnicka and Howden (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae: Aphodiinae). Insecta Mundi 0022:1-15.

 
 
 
   
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