The genus Dicrania LePeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Macrodactylini) from Colombia with the description of a new species

Zootaxa. 2024 May 30;5458(4):572-580. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.5.

Abstract

The genus Dicrania LePeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Macrodactylini) is widely distributed in South America, but only one species was previously known from Colombia: Dicrania laevipennis Moser, 1921. Here the genus is revised for Colombia and Dicrania chimu Clavijo-Bustos, Neita Moreno, & Fuhrmann, new species is described from the Llanos Orientales (Orinoquía) region and a new departmental record for D. laevipennis is documented.

MeSH terms

  • Animal Distribution*
  • Animal Structures / anatomy & histology
  • Animal Structures / growth & development
  • Animals
  • Body Size
  • Coleoptera* / anatomy & histology
  • Coleoptera* / classification
  • Colombia
  • Female
  • Male
  • Organ Size