Rhyparus breviceps Paulian, 1984

Minkina, Łukasz, Skelley, Paul, Jákl, Stanislav, Král, David & Li, Xiao-Feng, 2025, Review of the genus Rhyparus Westwood, 1845 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) in the Solomon Islands with description of two new species, Zootaxa 5570 (3), pp. 563-573 : 564

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5570.3.7
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scientific name	Rhyparus breviceps Paulian, 1984
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Rhyparus breviceps Paulian, 1984 View in CoL

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Rhyparus breviceps Paulian, 1984: 472 View in CoL , fig. 1. Type locality: “ Papua New Guinea, Morobe, umg. Kaiapit ”.

Material examined (6 exx.). 3 exx.: Solomon Islands, South Pacific, Guadalcanal Island, Karukiki env., 20–25 km SSE of Honiara, 750–900 m., 1.–18.xii.2016, leg. St. Jakl ( ISEA) [photographed material]; 1 ex.: Solomon Is., Gizo I., Gizo , 0-100m, iii.1985, N.L.H. Krauss, coll., Bishop Museum Acc. #1985.163 ( BPBM) ; 2 exx.: Solomon Islands, Malaita is., ca 6 km NW Waisisi vill. env., 340 m, 5.–1.xii.2018, J. Horák leg (1 ex. JHCP, 1 ex. NMPC) .

Comments. Rhyparus breviceps is a somewhat variable species, with insufficiently known distribution. It was described and so far known only from Papua New Guinea ( Paulian 1984; Stebnicka 1998; Mencl et al. 2013). This is the first record for the Solomon Islands.