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| Hathoronthophagus Stals, Daniel & Deschodt, 2024 Hathoronthophagus spinosus (Deschodt in Deschodt & Sole, 2023) in Stals, Daniel et Deschodt, 2024. in Deschodt & Sole, 2023. |
Abstract
A new dung beetle genus and species is described and pictured following its recent discovery on a farm in South Africa. Hathor spinosa Deschodt, new species belongs to the subfamily Scarabaeinae, tribe Onthophagini Streubel, 1846, it shows a unique set of characters. A map is provided to show the type locality of the new genus and species that has a putative association with ants.
Coleoptera, Putative ant association, dung beetle, Afrotropical region
Christian M. Deschodt and Catherine L. Sole. 2023. A New Genus and Species in the Diverse Dung Beetle Tribe Onthophagini Streubel, 1846 (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from South Africa. Zootaxa. 5375(2); 279-284. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5375.2.9
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In November 2023, Deschodt & Sole (2023) proposed the new genus-group name Hathor Deschodt for a peculiar, putatively ant-associated onthophagine dung beetle from Gauteng province, South Africa. The genus is as yet known only from the female holotype of the species Hathor spinosa Deschodt, 2023. It was overlooked that the new generic name is preoccupied by Hathor Kirkaldy & Edwards, 1902, as regulated by the Principle of Homonymy (Articles 52–60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature [henceforth the Code, Anonymous 1999]). Hathor Kirkaldy & Edwards is a monotypic genus of red bug or cotton stainer (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoroidea: Pyrrhocoridae) from tropical Africa, itself a junior subjective synonym of Sericocoris Karsch, 1892. Sericocoris is currently a valid genus (Robertson 2004; Stehlík & Jindra 2011).
Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae, Onthophagini
Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Onthophagini
Genus Hathoronthophagus Stals, Daniel & Deschodt, replacement name
Hathoronthophagus spinosus (Deschodt in Deschodt & Sole, 2023), new combination
Riaan Stals, Gimo M. Daniel and Christian M. Deschodt. 2024. Hathoronthophagus, new replacement name for Hathor Deschodt, 2023, preoccupied genus-group name of a putatively myrmecophilic dung beetle (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Onthophagini). Zootaxa. 5397(3); 449-450. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5397.3.10
