Descriptions, diagnoses, locality and temporal records, distributional maps, and illustrations of the 11 species of Ancognatha Erichson occurring in Ecuador are provided. Four new country records are reported for Ecuador, and a new species is described. A female lectotype at the Natural History Museum (London) for Ancognatha jamesoni Murray is designated. A key to the Ecuadorian species is included.
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28 December 2018
The Ancognatha Erichson (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini) of Ecuador, with Description of a New Species
Aura Paucar-Cabrera,
Brett C. Ratcliffe
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The Coleopterists Bulletin
Vol. 72 • No. 4
December 2018
Vol. 72 • No. 4
December 2018
lectotype
Neotropics
scarab beetles
South America
taxonomy