Zagurya, a new genus from Brazil with notes on claw movement in Macrodactylini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
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1Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de So Paulo, 04218-970 So Paulo-SP, Brazil. . jufuhrmann@gmail.com.
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|November 23, 2021
Abstract:
Zagurya new genus is described from a species formerly placed in Plectris LePeletier Audinet-Serville, 1828: Zagurya eusquamosa (Frey, 1975), new combination (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Macrodactylini). The male of the species is described for the first time. Notes on classification, distribution, and comparison with the similar genus Mallotarsus Blanchard, 1850 are presented.
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