A new species of genus Acrossus Mulsant, 1842 (Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae, Aphodiini) from South Korea

By

Lim, Changseob
Minkina, Łukasz

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1211

Pages

211--230

Subjects

Coleoptera , DNA barcode , Korean fauna , small dung beetles , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1211.118456

 

Abstract

A new species of the genus Acrossus Mulsant, 1842, Acrossus baeisp. nov. from South Korea, is described and illustrated on the basis of morphology and mitochondrial COI sequences. The species was compared with four related species; Acrossus atratus (Waterhouse, 1875), A. humerospinosus (Petrovitz, 1958), A. luridus (Fabricius, 1775), and A. superatratus (Nomura & Nakane, 1951). The taxonomic status and diagnostic characters of the new species are discussed. A key to species of the genus Acrossus in the Korean Peninsula is given.