New data and species for the Dichotomius speciosus (Waterhouse, 1891) species group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

ABSTRACT

The Dichotomius speciosus species group was recently revised and one species, D. malyi Maldaner, Nunes, and Vaz-de-Mello, 2015, was originally described from São Paulo state, without an exact type locality. Here, we provide the first confirmed locality data for D. malyi, which was found in one location in a complex of small mountain ranges north of Serra da Canastra in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Also, we describe an additional species from the same group, Dichotomius (Selenocopris) geraldimi sp. nov., from higher areas in the south of Espinhaço Mountain Range, Minas Gerais state, and present a revised identification key for the speciosus species group.

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KEYWORDS:

• dung beetles
• Atlantic Forest
• Dichotomius malyi
• new species

Acknowledgements

We thank Michele Rossini and one anonymous reviewer for proving feedback on the original manuscript. MEM received a scholarship from PROTAX/CNPq (440604/2015-0) and CAPES. FZVM is a fellow of CNPq 306745/2016-0. This work was funded by CNPq – 431760/2018-7 and FAPEMAT/CNPq/PRONEM, grant number 568005/2014.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the CNPQ [306745/2016-0,431760/2018-7,440604/2015-0]; and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Mato Grosso [grant number 568005/2014].