A new species of the genus Odochilus (Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae, Odochiliini) and a new synonym of the genus Paradidactylia (Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae, Aphodiini) collected from Kenting National Park, Taiwan

Kimio Masumoto; Yen-chiu Lan; Makoto Kiuchi

doi:10.69436/kogane.2016.18_83

A new species of the genus Odochilus (Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae, Odochiliini) and a new synonym of the genus Paradidactylia (Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae, Aphodiini) collected from Kenting National Park, Taiwan

Kimio Masumoto, Yen-chiu Lan, Makoto Kiuchi

Author information

Keywords: new species, new synonym, Odochilus (Odochilus) taiwanus, Aphodius (Phalacronothus) pseudoavanculus, Paradidactylia shantungensis

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

2016 Volume 2016 Issue 18 Pages 83-88

DOI https://doi.org/10.69436/kogane.2016.18_83

Details

Abstract

One new species of the genus Odochilus is described as O. (O.) taiwanus sp. nov. It is the first record of this genus from Taiwan. Aphodius (Phalacronothus) pseudoavunculus Masumoto, 1977 originally described from Kenting National Park is synonymized with Paradidactylia shantungensis (Balthasar, 1941).

Corresponding author

Register with J-STAGE for free!