A new genus and species of the termitophilous Neotropical Hybosorinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae) associated with Cornitermes (Isoptera: Termitidae) in the Cerrado ecoregion in Brazil |
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| Authors: | Andrey V. Frolov Federico C. Ocampo Lilia A. Akhmetova Fernando Vaz-de-Mello |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Biology and Zoology, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Institute of Biosciences, Cuiabá, Brazil;2. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia;3. AgIdea, Pergamino, Argentina;4. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia |
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| Abstract: | The new hybosorine genus Taisia Frolov, Ocampo, Akhmetova et Vaz-de-Mello, gen. nov. is described from T. cornitermitis Frolov, Ocampo, Akhmetova et Vaz-de-Mello, sp. nov. from Mato Grosso State, Brazil. Taisia gen. nov. can be easily distinguished from the rest of the Neotropical Hybosorinae genera by the following characters: mandibular teeth long and robust; pronotum with serrate lateral margins; scutellum with two deep rectangular fossae basally; and metatibial apex protruding. Males of T. cornitermitis sp. nov. differ in having feather-like setae on the three basal tarsomeres of meso- and protarsi. The new taxon is associated with termites Cornitermes cf. bequaerti Emerson, 1952. www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:439DDABB-EBC2-4870-AA05-76ADC3BDB7D9 |
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| Keywords: | Hybosoridae termitophily termitophilous beetles Cornitermes Cerrado |
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