Description of the third instar of Macraspis clavata (Olivier, 1789 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae)

Rone A F Medeiros; Carlos A V Frazão; Paschoal C Grossi; Juares Fuhrmann

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4638.3.8

Description of the third instar of Macraspis clavata (Olivier, 1789 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae)

Zootaxa. 2019 Jul 17;4638(3):zootaxa.4638.3.8. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.3.8.

Authors

Rone A F Medeiros¹, Carlos A V Frazão, Paschoal C Grossi, Juares Fuhrmann

Affiliation

¹ Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Agronomia/Fitossanidade, Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Coleoptera, Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, Dois Irmãos, s/n, 52171-900, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. [email protected].

PMID: 31712472
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.3.8

Abstract

The third instar of Macraspis clavata (Olivier, 1789), collected in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is described. Illustrations, comments on the natural history, and a key to third instar of Macraspis are also added.

Keywords: Coleoptera, Neotropical, saproxylic beetles, Scarabaeoidea, taxonomy, white grub.

MeSH terms

Animals
Brazil
Coleoptera*
Trematoda*