Maechidius longipes Telnov, 2020

Telnov, Dmitry, 2025, New and poorly known Papuan species of Maechidius W. S. MacLeay, 1819 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Maechidiini), Zootaxa 5665 (1), pp. 58-66 : 62

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5665.1.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FDF8461C-A293-4B19-9B0A-6D66CA4F2502

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16608396

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B2CA79-FFCF-FFB4-8FCB-273DFC318AFD

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Maechidius longipes Telnov, 2020
status

 

Maechidius longipes Telnov, 2020 View in CoL

New material studied. 7 specimens: PAPUA N. GUINEA Morobe XII.78 env. Kaiapit W.G. Ulrich ; 2 specimens: XII 78 PNG / Morobe Umg. Kaiapit ; 1 specimen: 24 I 79 Oner; 1 specimen: 4 II 74 PNG / EHProv. Umg.Kainantu Onerunka ; 1 specimen: 11 II 79 PNG / EHProv. Umg.Kainantu Onerunka ; 1 specimen: V 79 PNG /EHProv. Umg. Kainantu Onerunka ; 5 specimens: PAPUA N. GUINEA Onerunka X 79 nr Kainantu W. G. Ulrich ; 7 specimens: PAPUA N. GUINEA Onerunka XII 80 nr Kainantu W. G. Ulrich ; 1 specimen: Papua Nlle Guinee Morobe I. 81 env. de Gurakor W. G. Ulrich .

Note. For this species, no exact locality data were previously available but only a general geographical indication (New Guinea). The new records clarify the presence of M. longipes in the eastern New Guinea in the Aiyura and Markham valleys. “Oner” on one of the labels must stand for Onerunka.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

SubFamily

Melolonthinae

Tribe

Maechidiini

Genus

Maechidius

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF