A new genus and species of myrmecophilous aphodiine beetle (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) inhabiting the myrmecophytic epiphyte Platycerium sp (Polypodiaceae) in the Bornean rainforest canopy

作者：Maruyama Munetoshi^*

来源：ZooKeys, 2010, (34): 49-54.

DOI：10.3897/zookeys.34.281

• Myrmecophily
• Crematogaster difformis
• Aphodiinae
• Eupariini
• Cnematoplatys

Pterobius itiokai Maruyama, gen. n. and sp. n., (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) is described from Lambir Hills National Park, Borneo based on specimens collected from a Crematogaster difformis ant nest in the myrmecophytic epiphytic fern genus Platycerium. Pterobius belongs to the tribe Eupariini and is closely related to the Indo-Australian genus Cnematoplatys.

• 出版日期2010