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Demarziella interrupta
Distribution
Description
Head: Dorsal surface flat, with a few erect bristles. Very densely and coarsely punctate.
Pronotum: Very densely covered with coarse punctures, elongated in depressions. Elevations smooth and shiny. A few coarse bristles.
Pterothorax: Median lobe of metasternum with a low keel, posterior depression shallow or absent, setae absent.
Elytra: Odd-numbered elytral intervals wider than others, with a series of elongated tubercles, except on 1st interval. Tubercles also present on intervals 6 and 8. Each tubercle with one stout bristle on outer edge. Anterior portion of striae parallel, becoming strongly undulate posteriorly.
Legs: Inner apical angle of fore tibiae produced into a small rounded process. Outer teeth prominent.
Abdomen: Pygidium densely and coarsely punctate, the basal groove not enlarged.
Sexual dimorphism
References
Matthews, E. G. & Stebnicka, Z. (1986) A review of Demarziella Balthasar, with a transfer from Aphodiinae to Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Aust. J. Zool. 34: 449-461 |
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