[Entomology • 2023] Hathoronthophagus spinosus • A New Genus and Species in the Diverse Dung Beetle Tribe Onthophagini Streubel, 1846 (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from South Africa

Hathoronthophagus Stals, Daniel & Deschodt, 2024
Hathoronthophagus spinosus (Deschodt in Deschodt & Sole, 2023)

in Stals, Daniel et Deschodt, 2024.  

DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5397.3.10 

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in Deschodt & Sole, 2023.  

DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5375.2.9

 

Abstract

A new dung beetle genus and species is described and pictured following its recent discovery on a farm in South Africa. Hathor spinosa Deschodt, new species belongs to the subfamily Scarabaeinae, tribe Onthophagini Streubel, 1846, it shows a unique set of characters. A map is provided to show the type locality of the new genus and species that has a putative association with ants.

Coleoptera, Putative ant association, dung beetle, Afrotropical region

Christian M. Deschodt and Catherine L. Sole. 2023. A New Genus and Species in the Diverse Dung Beetle Tribe Onthophagini Streubel, 1846 (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from South Africa.  Zootaxa. 5375(2); 279-284. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5375.2.9

 

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In November 2023, Deschodt & Sole (2023) proposed the new genus-group name Hathor Deschodt for a peculiar, putatively ant-associated onthophagine dung beetle from Gauteng province, South Africa. The genus is as yet known only from the female holotype of the species Hathor spinosa Deschodt, 2023. It was overlooked that the new generic name is preoccupied by Hathor Kirkaldy & Edwards, 1902, as regulated by the Principle of Homonymy (Articles 52–60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature [henceforth the Code, Anonymous 1999]). Hathor Kirkaldy & Edwards is a monotypic genus of red bug or cotton stainer (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoroidea: Pyrrhocoridae) from tropical Africa, itself a junior subjective synonym of Sericocoris Karsch, 1892. Sericocoris is currently a valid genus (Robertson 2004; Stehlík & Jindra 2011).

Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae, Onthophagini

Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Onthophagini

Genus Hathoronthophagus Stals, Daniel & Deschodt, replacement name

Hathoronthophagus spinosus (Deschodt in Deschodt & Sole, 2023), new combination

Riaan Stals, Gimo M. Daniel and Christian M. Deschodt. 2024. Hathoronthophagus, new replacement name for Hathor Deschodt, 2023, preoccupied genus-group name of a putatively myrmecophilic dung beetle (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Onthophagini).  Zootaxa. 5397(3); 449-450. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5397.3.10

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[Herpetology • 2017] A Morphological and Molecular Study of Psilops, A Replacement Name for the Brazilian Microteiid Lizard Genus Psilophthalmus Rodrigues 1991 (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae), with the Description of Two New Species

Psilops seductus

Rodrigues, Recoder, Teixeira, Roscito, Guerrero, et al., 2017

 DOI:  10.11646/zootaxa.4286.4.1

Abstract

The lizard genus Psilophthalmus was originally described from the sandy deposits at the northern end of Serra do Espinhaço, in Santo Inácio, state of Bahia, but since then it has been recorded in other Brazilian localities of the states of Bahia, Minas Gerais, and Sergipe. Here, we review the collected specimens based on molecular markers (mitochondrial 12S, 16S, ND4 and cyt b, and nuclear C-mos and NT3) and morphological evidence (external, hemipenial and osteological morphologies). In the course of our revision we find out that Psilophthalmus Rodrigues 1991 was preoccupied by Psilophthalmus Szépligeti 1902 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). The replacement name Psilops is proposed for the genus for which we recognize three species, with Psilops paeminosus as type species. One of the new species is found along the high elevation areas of the Chapada Diamantina plateaus, state of Bahia, while the other occurs in the cerrados of “Serra Geral”, in the occidental plateaus of that state. Psilops paeminosus comprises three distinct allopatric clades that, based on current evidence, cannot be diagnosed morphologically: one from the vicinities of the type locality, one from the lower São Francisco River, and a third from the uplands of Minas Gerais and southern inland Bahia. We keep the latter two as candidate species but defer their formal description until further evidence allows robust diagnosis. Derived clades of Psilops with shorter limbs have invaded hotter and drier environments, while mostly used sandy soils along their evolution.

Keywords: Reptilia, Chapada Diamantina, Serra Geral, hemipenis, osteology, phylogeny, taxonomy

Psilops nom. nov. from the greek psilo (naked) and ops (eye) as a replacement name for Psilophthalmus Rodrigues, 1991, keeping Psilops paeminosus as its type species.

• Psilops mucugensis sp. nov.
Etymology. Named after the type locality, Mucugê, at Chapada Diamantina, Bahia.


• Psilops seductus sp. nov.
Etymology. from the Latin remote, apart, in reference to the geographic isolation of this species, which is restricted to the Cerrado plateaus of Serra Geral, west to the São Francisco River.  

FIGURE 9. Live specimens of Psilops seductus, MNRJ 19417, from Jaborandi, Bahia. 

 Miguel T. Rodrigues, Renato Recoder, Mauro Teixeira Jr., Juliana G. Roscito, Agustín C. Guerrero, Pedro M. S. Nunes, Marco A. De Freitas, Daniel S. Fernandes, Adriana Bocchiglieri, Francisco D. Vechio, Felipe S. F. Leite, Claudio C. Nogueira, Roberta Damasceno, Katia C. M. Pellegrino, Antônio J. S. Argôlo and Renata C. Amaro. 2017. A Morphological and Molecular Study of Psilops, A Replacement Name for the Brazilian Microteiid Lizard Genus Psilophthalmus Rodrigues 1991 (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae), with the Description of Two New Species. 

 Zootaxa. 4286(4); 451–482.  DOI:  10.11646/zootaxa.4286.4.1
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[PaleoMammalogy • 2006] Notiolofos (Notolophus) arquinotiensis • A New ‘South American ungulate’ (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the Eocene of the Antarctic Peninsula

Abstract

Notolophus arquinotiensis, a new genus and species of the family Sparnotheriodontidae (Mammalia, Litopterna), is represented by several isolated teeth from the shallow-marine sediments of the La Meseta Formation (late Early-Late Eocene) of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, which have also yielded the youngest known sudamericids and marsupials. The new taxon belongs to the extinct order of ‘South American native ungulate’ Litopterna characterized by the convergence of the later forms with the equids and camelids. Notolophus arquinotiensis shows closest relationships with Victorlemoinea from the Itaboraian (middle Palaeocene) of Brazil and Riochican-Vacan (late Palaeocene-early Eocene) of Patagonia, Argentina. Although still poorly documented, this new taxon shows that the early Palaeogene Antarctic faunas might provide key data concerning the problems of the origin, diversity and basal phylogeny of some of the ‘South American ungulates’ (Litopterna). This new taxon shows the importance of Antarctica in the early evolution of the ungulates and illustrates our poor state of knowledge.

M. Bond, M. A. Reguero, S. F. Vizcaíno and S. A. Marenssi. 2006. A New ‘South American ungulate’ (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the Eocene of the Antarctic Peninsula. In J. E. Francis, D. Pirrie, J. A. Crame (eds). Cretaceous-tertiary high-latitude palaeoenvironments: James Ross Basin, Antarctica. The Geological Society of London. 258(1): 163–176. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.258.01.12.

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Bond, M., Reguero, M. A., Vizcaíno, S. F. and Ortiz-Jaureguizar, E. 2009. Notiolofos, a replacement name for Notolophus Bond, Reguero, Vizcaíno and Marenssi, 2006, a preoccupied name. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29, 979.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1671/039.029.0321

 Javier N. Gelfo, Thomas Mörs, Malena Lorente, Guillermo M. López, Marcelo Reguero.  in press. The oldest mammals from Antarctica, early Eocene of the La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island. Palaeontology. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala.12121.