A New, Sexually Dimorphic Species of Cylloepus Erichson from Brazil (Coleoptera: Elmidae)

Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California. Berkeley, CA, USA.
Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri. Columbia, MO, USA.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Abstract

Cylloepus dimorphus Shepard, Sites, and Rodrigues, new species (Elmidae) is described from Brazil with a sexually dimorphic abdominal ventrite 5. Males have a protruding lobe on each side of the apex of ventrite 5. Females lack the lobes and are not distinguishable from congeners.

Keywords in Portuguese

Taxonomia
Região Neotropical
Besouro Riggle
Byrrhoidea

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Taxonomy
Neotropical
Riggle beetle
Byrrhoidea

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BioOne

Citation

SHERPARD, William D.; SITES, Robert W.; RODRIGUES, Higor D. D. A New Sexualy Dimorphic Species of Cylloepus Erichson from Brazil ( Coleoptera: Elmidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, v. 75, n. 1, p. 270-274, 2021.

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10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.270

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OO10-065X

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/48926

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2023

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