Gonaphodiopsis deloyai, Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon, 2012

Gonaphodiopsis deloyai new species

( Fig. 104-108 View Figure 99-108 )

Type locality. Cueva de Tasalolpan, 20°01’N – 097°31’W, m 1495, Cuetzalan del Progreso, Puebla, Mexico.

Type repository. Dellacasa Collection, Genoa, Italy.

Description. Length 4.0-4.5 mm; oblong elongate, convex, shiny, glabrous. Reddish brown; pronotum and elytra shadowy darker on disc; legs dark brown; antennal club testaceous. Head with epistome feebly convex, densely, evenly, moderately coarsely punctured; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, round at sides, rather finely bordered, edge glabrous; genae broadly round, not ciliate, faintly protruding from the eyes; frontal suture feebly raised, not tuberculate; front evenly, moderately coarsely punctured. Pronotum transverse, moderately convex, dually punctured; punctation dense and almost uniformly scattered throughout; large punctures, five to six times larger than small ones, somewhat denser on sides, sparser medially; small, very fine punctures evenly scattered throughout; lateral margins nearly straight, very finely bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles truncate, truncation not inwardly sinuate; base almost regularly arcuate. Scutellum elongate, somewhat depressed laterally, finely punctured on basal half. Elytra convex, elongate, feebly broadened posteriorly, moderately denticulate at shoulder, deeply striate; striae rather fine, distinctly punctured, subcrenulate; interstriae slightly convex on disc, somewhat more convex on preapical declivity, very finely sparsely punctured. Hind tibiae upper spur somewhat shorter than first tarsal segment; first tarsal segment distinctly longer than following three segments combined. Male: pronotum relatively more transverse and less convex; fore tibiae spur stouter and shorter; aedeagus Fig. 107-108 View Figure 99-108 . Female: pronotum relatively less transverse and more convex; fore tibiae spur slender and longer.

Type material. MEXICO: Oaxaca: rd Mexico 135- San Gabriel Mixtepec env., 16°13’13.8’’ N-097 °08’55.7’’W, m 2600, 17.VI.2002, leg. Dellacasa M. & Martínez I. ( 1 paratype, DCGI) GoogleMaps ; 26 Km E Valle Nacional Km 71, 25.VI-02.VIII.1983, leg. Peck S. & J., mountain tropical forest, FIT ( 2 paratypes, DCGI, CNCI) ; Puebla: 2.7 Km S Apulco, nr. Zacapoaxtla , m 1401, 22.VII.1987, leg. Anderson R. S., cloud forest ( 1 paratype, CNCI) ; Cueva de Tasalolpan, Cuetzalan del Progreso , 20°01’N – 97°31’W, m 1495, 18.VIII.1987, leg. Deloya A. C., salchicha de nidificación de Haplogeotrupes reddelli (Howden) ( male holotype, DCGI GoogleMaps ; allotype, FSCA GoogleMaps ; 2 paratypes, DCGI) GoogleMaps ; Nuevo Necaxa, m 1200, 25-28.VII.1969, leg. Peck S. & J., carrion baited trap, Sycamore forest ( 1 paratype, CNCI) ; San Luis Potosí: 20 Km W Xilitla, m 1600, 12.VI-06.VIII.1983, leg. Peck S. & J., FIT, cloud forest ( 2 paratypes, CNCI) ; Tamaulipas: nr. Gomez Farias, Rancho del Cielo , m 1000, 06.VI. -07.VIII.1983, leg. Pack S. & J., FIT, cloud forest ( 3 paratypes, DCGI, CNCI) ; Wet Cave , 06.II.1964, leg. Reddell, McKenzie & Manire ( 1 paratype, USNM) ; Veracruz: El Duraznal, m 1600, 15.VII.1994, leg. Arellano L. & Sanchez R., bosque encino, trampa copro vaca ( 1 paratype, DCGI) .

Distribution. Mexico ( Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz).

Etymology. Named in honor of the Mexican scarabaeidologist Aristeo Cuauhtémoc Deloya, researcher at Instituto de Ecologia in Xalapa ( Veracruz).

Bionomics. Some of the specimens of the type series were collected in “salchicha de nidificación” of Haplogeotrupes reddelli (Howden) .