A new Anomiopus Westwood from Peru (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae).

The purpose of this paper is to describe a new species of the scarabaeine dung beetle genus Anomiopus Westwood from the Junin region of east-central Peru. It is a contribution to an ongoing study of the Peruvian scarabaeine dung beetle fauna based at the Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. In a previous paper (Edmonds and Figueroa 2013) we described what we then regarded as the most bizarre Anomiopus yet discovered, A. pishtaco. Further fi eld studies to the west of and at a higher elevation than the type locality of A. pishtaco has yielded yet another unusual, arguably even more bizarre species, A. apuskispay, new species, which we describe below. The taxonomy of Anomiopus is the subject of a series of recent papers by the late Virginia Luzia Canhedo (Canhedo 2004a, 2004b, 2006). Nothing is known about the biology of this new species nor that of A. pishtaco. Most Anomiopus specimens with precise collecting data were attracted to light traps of various types as well as fl ight-intercept traps, dung-baited pitfall traps, sweep nets, and direct capture near newly excavated nests of Acromyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera; Formicidae).