A new species of Heterosternus Dupont (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Mexico

ABSTRACT

Heterosternus galindorum new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelini) from the state of Puebla, Mexico, is described and illustrated. Keys to identify males of Heterosternus Dupont with photographs, a comparative table of morphological characters, and a distribution map of the genus are provided.

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KEYWORDS:

• Scarab
• neotropic
• shining leaf chafers
• extinction
• new species

Acknowledgments

The first author thanks the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) for the “Cátedras CONACYT” program and the Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IBUNAM), for the technical and scientific support given to the project No. 59: “Laboratorio Regional de Biodiversidad y Cultivo de Tejidos Vegetales (LBCTV), sede Tlaxcala”; within the internal project, “Diversidad y distribución de escarabajos lamelicornios del centro y sur de México para evaluar afinidades biogeográficas y prioridades de conservación”; CONACYT for the Laboratorios Nacionales CONACYT program that allowed to obtain microscopy equipment, and the Secretaría de Fomento Agropecuario del Estado de Tlaxcala (SEFOA) for a support grant as part of the institutional collaboration agreement. The second author thanks Gonzalo Galindo, Jesús Galindo, and Miguel Gaspar for their invaluable help in the field and their enthusiasm in the knowledge of beetle species. The authors are grateful to Daniel J. Curoe who provided locality data and help with the revision of English language and to Jesús Juan who loaned specimens of Heterosternus to compare and photograph.

Disclosure statement

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