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44 • INSECTA MUNDI 0129, July 2010 EDMONDS AND ZIDEK
Coprophanaeus (C.) spitzi (Pessôa, 1934)
Fig. 7, 12, 97, 101, 108, 112-118
Phanaeus spitzi Pessôa, 1934: 303
Coprophanaeus spitzi (Pessôa) (recomb. by Edmonds 1972: 843)
Type. Holotype male, Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo.
Diagnosis. General – Dorsum except for irregular black areas, head and pronotum bright metallic green
or yellowish green, elytra dark green to almost black. Clypeal margin rounded, not noticeably angulate or
explanate lateral to median teeth (Fig. 114, 117). Pronotum with elongate triangular depression densely
packed with coarse granules extending from posterior margin to middle of disk (Fig. 97); area adjacent to
depression and extending along posterior pronotal margin somewhat swollen, smooth, punctured but
sometimes only weakly so. Basal pronotal fossae effaced. Elytral striae distinctly carinulate (Fig. 101),
even in specimens with dark elytra. Length18-24 mm.
Male (Fig. 97, 116-118) – Base of head horn weakly concave. Anteromedian pronotal concavity shallow,
bordered posteriorly by weak transverse carina bearing rounded central tubercle; ends of transverse
carina curving downward, lacking distinct tubercle.
Female (Fig. 114-115) – Cephalic carina straight, median tubercle larger than laterals. Pronotal
ridge not strongly elevated, narrowly bidentate medially.
Specimens examined – 99.
Distribution. Chacoan subregion – southern Cerrado and Chaco provinces (Fig. 113).
Collection Records. BOLIVIA: Beni – Magdalena (Dec). Santa Cruz – Parque Nacional Noel Kempff
Mercado [Los Fierros], 14 o 33.5’S 60 o 55.9’W. BRAZIL: Bahia – 150 km W Barrieras (Jan); Encruzilhada
(Dec). Distrito Federal – Estação Forestal Cabeça do Veado, 1100 m (Oct); Brasilia (Nov-Dec). Mato
Grosso – Uirapurú [Chapada dos Parecis] (Dec). Mato Grosso do Sul – Selvíria (Jan, Mar, Oct).
Minas Gerais – Cordisburgo [Fazenda Pontinha] (Dec); Turvolândia (Feb). Paraná – Vila Velha. São
Paulo – Mogi Guaçu [Fazenda Campininas] (Jan); Jabaquara [Capital] (Dec); Novo Horizonte (Nov);
Batatais (Mar, Dec); São Paulo [Ipiranga] (Mar); São José dos Campos (Nov). Goiás – Rio Verde; Vianopolis
(Dec). PARAGUAY: Amambay – Cerro Corá (Feb, Dec). Caaguazú – Caaguazú. Concepción – Cororó
(Nov); Concepción [Santa Morana], 23 o 24’S 57 o 26’W (Oct); Campo Zanja Morotí, 22 o 53’S 57 o 23’W (Nov).
Presidente Hayes – Lolita (Yaragui) (Jan).
Comments. This species is the southern representative of the species pair it forms with C. acrisius.
Coprophanaeus (C.) acrisius (MacLeay, 1819)
Fig. 100, 113, 119-123
Phanaeus jasius acrisius MacLeay, 1819: 127
Phanaeus camargoi Pessôa, 1934: 298 (syn. by Arnaud 2002c: 30)
Coprophanaeus acrisius (MacLeay) (recomb. by Blackwelder 1944: 209 [as synonym of C. jasius])
Type. P. acrisius – neotype male (des. by Arnaud, 2002b: 3), The Natural History Museum, London
(examined); P. camargoi – holotype male, Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo.
Diagnosis. General – Posterior portion of head and pronotum bright metallic green or yellowish green;
elytral interstriae dull bronze, striae and margins of elytra bright green. Clypeal margin rounded (Fig.
119, 122), not noticeably angulate or explanate lateral to median teeth. Pronotum (as in Fig. 97) with
elongate triangular depression densely packed with coarse granules, extending from posterior margin to
middle of disk; area adjacent to depression and extending along posterior pronotal margin somewhat