Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 43(3-4) 2000

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VOL 43(3-4) 2000

Keywords:

Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae, Aphodiini, new genus, phylogeny, Nearctic

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A new genus for Pleurophorus ventralis Horn, 1887, with phylogenetic inferences (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: Aphodiini)

• Zdzisława STEBNICKA

Abstract:

Hornietus gen. nov. for Nearctic Pleurophorus ventralis HORN is described and placed in the tribe Aphodiini. Cladistic analysis shows a sister group relationship between new genus and the Aphodius-complex.