Thursday, March 11, 2021

N. 66: L. Milani

G. it. Ent., 16 (66): 13-24

March 2021


Note sul genere Golofa Hope

(Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Dynastini)

con descrizione di una nuova specie dal Perù


di


LEONELLO MILANI


Abstract - Notes on the genus Golofa Hope (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Dynastini) with description of a new species from Peru - A new species of Golofa Hope from central Peru - Golofa bubeniki sp. nov. - is described and illustrated on the basis of one male. The peculiarity of this new species is to exhibit a bifurcate small cephalic horn, the only to show this characteristic among the 35 known Golofa species. Despite the morphological features of most major specimens of the genus Golofa allow a precise diagnosis, the minor ones and their intermediate phenotypes raise many diagnostic doubts, especially due to the complete unavailability of good quality photographic enlargements as well as of well-made drawings of the parameres in the descriptions. Due to the great asymmetry of the parameres, Golofa bubeniki sp. nov. is compared with Golofa pelagon Burmeister.