Onthophilus burkei Kovarik and Skelley, new species, is described and illustrated from specimens that were collected in the burrows of Geomys pinetus Rafinesque, the southeastern pocket gopher, in a few scattered localities in Alabama, Georgia, and northern Florida as part of a comprehensive regional effort to sample burrows of this gopher for arthropod inquilines. Onthophilus burkei is the only known burrow-inhabiting Onthophilus from the southeastern USA that has six unmodified pronotal striae. This species appears to be active mainly in winter.
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19 December 2019
A New Pocket Gopher Burrow-Inhabiting Species of Onthophilus Leach (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from the Southeastern USA
Peter W. Kovarik,
Paul E. Skelley
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The Coleopterists Bulletin
Vol. 73 • No. 4
December 2019
Vol. 73 • No. 4
December 2019
Geomys pinetis
Horace Burke
inquiline
North America
Onthophilinae
taxonomy