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Two New Species of Macraspis MacLeay, 1819 (Melolonthidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini) from Brazil, with Supplementary Description on the Chromatic Variation and Endophallus of Macraspis laevicollis (Waterhouse, 1881)

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Two new species of Macraspis MacLeay are described and illustrated based on adult specimens collected in São Paulo and Paraná states, in southeastern and southern Brazil, respectively. Macraspis ironman sp. nov. and M. soulai sp. nov. are diagnosed and included in the preexisting identification key. A new chromatic variation of M. laevicollis (Waterhouse) is reported, along with a supplementary description including aedeagus and endophallus structures.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the curators of the collections for providing the material included in this paper. MB thanks Claudio Ruy Vasconcelos da Fonseca for his guidance, Juares Fuhrmann for the critical review and discussions concerning endophallus morphology, and an anonymous reviewer for the valuable suggestions. The Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-Brasil (CAPES) financed this study in part—Finance Code 001. PCG received support from CNPq/Universal (process numbers 449366/2014-6 and 424048/2018-3), and CNPq/PQ (process number 309786/2019-3), as well as resources from CAPES through the Post Graduate Program in Entomology.

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  1. Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Coleoptera, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil

    Matheus Bento

  2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Laboratório de Taxonomia de Insetos, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Recife, Brazil

    Paschoal Coelho Grossi

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MB wrote the manuscript, added intellectual content, performed endophalli dissections, made the photographs, and prepared the figures. PG critically reviewed the manuscript and added intellectual content. All the authors approved the final version of this manuscript.

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Bento, M., Grossi, P.C. Two New Species of Macraspis MacLeay, 1819 (Melolonthidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini) from Brazil, with Supplementary Description on the Chromatic Variation and Endophallus of Macraspis laevicollis (Waterhouse, 1881). Neotrop Entomol 50, 247–257 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-020-00843-1

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