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Abstract
A scarab beetle genus, Madecorphnus Paulian, endemic to Madagascar, is revised. Nine new species are described: M. brunneus sp. nov., M. dentatus sp. nov., M. montreuili sp. nov., M. niger sp. nov., M. pauliani sp. nov., M. perinetensis sp. nov., M. peyrierasi sp. nov., M. punctatus sp. nov., M. simplex sp. nov. Diagnosis of the genus is clarified. Distribution map and a diagnostic key to all species are presented.
Acknowledgements
I am thankful to Olivier Montreuil (MNHN) for the opportunity to work with scarab beetle collection at his institution and for assistance and, Robert Angus (Royal Holloway, University of London) for linguistic corrections and valuable comments on the draft manuscript, and an anonymous reviewer for comments. This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant number 10-04-00539-a) and, partly, by European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT).