Rhyparus guadalcanalensis Minkina, Skelley, Jákl, Král, & Li, 2025

Skelley, Paul E. & Minkina, Łukasz, 2025, Review of the Rhyparini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) of eastern Melanesia and Polynesia, with descriptions of new species, Zootaxa 5632 (1), pp. 115-137 : 136

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5632.1.6

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15371675

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scientific name

Rhyparus guadalcanalensis Minkina, Skelley, Jákl, Král, & Li, 2025
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Rhyparus guadalcanalensis Minkina, Skelley, Jákl, Král, & Li, 2025 View in CoL

Rhyparus guadalcanalensis Minkina Skelley, Jákl, Král, & Li, 2025: 564–567 View in CoL . Type locality. Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal Island, Karukiki .

Material examined. Type materials as cited and illustrated in the description of Minkina et al. (2025) from the Solomon Islands .

Comments. While similar to R. helophoroides in many ways, R. guadalcanalensis are easily distinguished by pronotal characters and male sexual dimorphisms. Additionally, it belongs to group of small species similar to R. helophoroides where each island region in Indonesia may have a different localized species in the complex. They are endemics sympatric with the widespread R. helophoroides .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Rhyparus

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Rhyparus guadalcanalensis Minkina, Skelley, Jákl, Král, & Li, 2025

Skelley, Paul E. & Minkina, Łukasz 2025
2025
Loc

Rhyparus guadalcanalensis Minkina Skelley, Jákl, Král, & Li, 2025: 564–567

Minkina, Skelley, Jakl, Kral, & Li 2025: 564 - 567
2025
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