Studies on tribe Psammodiini (Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) with description of two new genera and one new species

ABSTRACT

Two new genera are described and illustrated in Psammodiini Mulsant, 1842: Neomyrhessus gen. nov. and Pseudomyrhessus gen. nov. Both are removed from the genus Myrhessus Balthasar, 1955, which is the most similar to new genera. In addition, a new species of the genus Neomyrhessus gen. nov. from China: Neomyrhessus nanjingensis sp. nov. is described and illustrated. Notes on the taxonomic position of all above genera are also given.

KEYWORDS:

• New genera
• new species
• Myrhessus
• Neomyrhessus
• Pseudomyrhessus

Acknowledgments

I thank very much the curator of the scientific collection and the custodian of the beetle collection of ISEA (Kraków, Poland): Łukasz Przybyłowicz and Marek Banasiak. Thanks due to the curator of the collection of National Museum (Praha, Czech Republic): Jiří Hájek. Heartfelt thanks also go to Robert Angus for his constant English corrections. Many thanks to Adam Klasiński for his invaluable help in taking photographs of the epipharynx.

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