Revision of the Neotropical scarab beetle genus Aegidiellus Paulian (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae) with description of two new species

ABSTRACT

The Neotropical Orphninae genus Aegidiellus Paulian is revised. Two new species are described: Aegidiellus zezaoi sp. nov. and Aegidiellus dentipenis sp. nov. The genus occurs in eastern Brazil, mostly in the Atlantic Forest ecoregion. Key to species, descriptions, illustrations of habitus and male genitalia, and distribution maps are given.

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KEYWORDS:

• Atlantic Forest ecoregion
• Brazil Orphninae
• Scarab beetles
• South America

Acknowledgements

We thank all curators of the collections who provided access to the specimens. Comments from an anonymous reviewer considerably improved the early version of the manuscript.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico [304925/2010-1, 302997/2013-0, 405697/2013-9, 48403, 306745/2016-0, 010551/2015-8, 400681/2014-5]; Mato Grosso State Research Funding Agency [FAPEMAT-PRONEM2014]; Russian State Research Project [AAAA-A17-117030310210-3]; and Russian Foundation for Basic Research [16-04-00412 A]. FZVM is a CNPq 1B fellow.