XXXIII. Characters of various new Groups and Species amongst the Coprophagous Lamellicorn Beetles
XXXIII. Characters of various new Groups and Species amongst the Coprophagous Lamellicorn Beetles
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1365-2311.1847.tb01357.x
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发表时间：
2009-04
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
J. Westwood
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作者：
J. Westwood
人们对通常称为圣甲虫的昆虫种类中的各种形态都有相当大的兴趣（由于埃及人对那些居住在他们陌生土地上的特殊物种的崇敬，我不需要道歉，就把属于那个科的各种新的和有趣的物种的描述和数字提交给本学会的会员们注意这些昆虫中有一种，其特征与真正的、典型的太阳虫亚属（Heliocan-thartcs）的所有其他种类的特征大不相同，而它与太阳虫亚属的亲缘关系最近，因此我认为它的地位要比太阳虫亚属中的一个物种高;与此同时，必须承认，它似乎几乎没有资格与麦克莱先生命名为Mnenzatiunz，Pnchysoma和Gymno的形式类型相提并论。
As CONSIDERABLE interest is attached to the various types of form amongst the species of insects known by the ordinary name of sacred beetles (on account of the veneration with which the Egyptians regarded those particular species which are inhabitants of their strange land,) I need offer no apology in submitting to the notice of the members of this Society descriptions and figures of various new and interesting species belonging to that family lately arrived in this country.One of these insects possesses characters differing so much from those of all the rest of the true and typical subgenus Heliocan-thartcs, to which it is most nearly allied, that I am induced to regard it as possessing a higher rank than that of a mere species of that group; at the same time it is to be admitted that it seems scarcely entitled to an equal rank with the types of form which Mr. MacLeay has named Mnenzatiunz, Pnchysoma and Gymno-