Ceratotrupes gonzaloi
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Geotrupidae |
| Genus: | Ceratotrupes |
| Species: | C. gonzaloi
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| Ceratotrupes gonzaloi Arriaga-Jiménez, Zunino, Halffter, Escobar-Hernández & Rossini, 2023
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Ceratotrupes gonzaloi is a species of beetle of the family Geotrupidae. It is found in Mexico, where it occurs in the Sierra Madre del Sur. It seems to be restricted to the surrounding mountains of Omiltemi, Guerrero, where it occurs exclusively in pine forest. Many of the specimens historically identified as C. sturmi in natural history collections instead belong to this new species.
Description
Adults have a black body with strong purple to greenish iridescence on the pronotum and elytra. The antennal segments are brown and the antennal club is brownish.
Etymology
The species is named in honour of Gonzalo Halffter (1932–2022), an entomologist. [1]
References
- ^ Part of this text is from “A taxonomic review of the endemic Mexican genus Ceratotrupes Jekel, 1865 (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Ceratotrupini), with the description of an unexpected new species from the Sierra Madre del Sur” by Arriaga-Jiménez A., et al. This article is licensed under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC BY 4.0 license