Glaresishespericulasp. n. from the Cape Verde Islands (Boa Vista Island) is described and its diagnostic characters are illustrated. The new species is compared with similar and probably closely related species Glaresiswalzlae Scholtz, 1983. The differential diagnosis is mainly based on the different shape of meso- and metatibiae.
Two species of Glaresis Erichson, 1848 (Coleoptera: Glaresidae) are reported from China. Glaresis ordosensis new species from Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi is described and compared with the similar species G. orientalis Medvedev, 1976 and G. oxiana Semenov, 1892. Glaresis orientalis, previously known only from Mongolia, is recorded from China (Inner Mongolia), for the first time. A key for the identification of Middle and Central Asian species of Glaresis is provided.
Bolbelasmus (Bolbelasmus) zagrosensis Sommer, Hillert, Hrůzová & Král, new species, from Iran is described, illustrated and compared with its congeners known from the western Palaearctic region. An updated key to the western Palaearctic species of the nominotypical subgenus is provided. New country record of B. (B.) nireus (Reitter, 1895) from Greece (island of Rhodes) is reported. Distribution of B. (B.) makrisi Miessen, 2011, B. (B.) nireus and the new species is summarized and mapped.
Pachnoda iskuulka Král, Sommer & Šípek, new species from the Sanaag region of north-eastern Somaliland is described. The new species is compared with the morphologically similar taxa Pachnoda abyssinica abyssinica Reiche, 1847, P. a. meriteti Di Gennaro, 2017, P. massajae Gestro, 1881, and P. werneri Beinhundner, 1992, all of which occur in the Horn of Africa. Relevant diagnostic characters (e.g., dorsal and ventral surface color pattern, male external genitalia) are illustrated. The third instar larva of the new species is described and biological notes are provided.
Bolboceratidae is a large family of about 600 species (e.g., Schoolmeesters 2019), in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Currently, it includes two subfamilies, Athyreinae and Bolboceratinae (e.g., Scholtz & Grebennikov 2016; Nikolajev et al. 2016). The Athyreinae includes five genera and about 130 species from the Afrotropical, Neotropical, Oriental and Palearctic regions (e.g., Schoolmeesters 2019). The genus Pseudoathyreus Howden & Martínez, 1963 contains nine species occurring in Africa and Asia (e.g., Carpaneto et al. 2000; Schoolmeesters 2019). Little is known about the biology of Athyreinae (Scholtz & Grebennikov 2016). Immature stages of this group remain unknown (Grebennikov & Scholtz 2004).
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