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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• COSTA, LEIDIANE O.
• DUARTE, PAULO R. M.
• IANNUZZI, LUCIANA
• GROSSI, PASCHOAL C.

Titel

A hidden Megasoma Kirby species under the enigmatic genus Gibboryctes Endrödi (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)

Ist Teil von

• Zootaxa, 2021-04, Vol.4964 (2)

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Gibboryctes Endrödi, 1974 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Oryctini) is an uncommon Neotropical genus comprising five valid species (Gasca-Álvarez & Ratcliffe 2011; Dupuis 2019). Endrödi (1974) established the genus based on Gibboryctes szelenyii Endrödi, 1974 and defined it by the absence of sexual dimorphism; short, triangular, and pointed clypeus; bidentate mandibles projected beyond the anterior clypeal margin; and protibiae quadridentate. After that, Gibboryctes waldenfelsi (Endrödi, 1977) and Gibboryctes gracilicornis (Prell, 1912) were assigned to Gibboryctes, from Strategus Kirby, 1828 and Heterogomphus Burmeister, 1847, respectively (Ratcliffe & Dechambre 1983; Dupuis & Dechambre 2008). Gibboryctes bollei Dechambre, 2006 and Gibboryctes impunctatus Dupuis, 2019 were subsequently described.