A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeysLife 389: history 49–76 (2014)and description of larva and pupa of Platyphileurus felscheanus Ohaus, 1910... 49 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.389.6888 RESEARCH ARTICLE www.zookeys.org Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Life history and description of larva and pupa of Platyphileurus felscheanus Ohaus, 1910, a scarabaeid feeding on bromeliad tissues in Brazil, to be excluded from Phileurini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae) Fabiano F. Albertoni1,2, Frank-Thorsten Krell3, Josefina Steiner1, Anne Zillikens1,4 1 Departamento de Biologia Celular, Embriologia e Genética, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário Trindade, 88.040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil 2 Ento- mologia, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3 Department of Zoology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, Colorado 80205-5798, U.S.A. 4 Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftliches Forschungszentrum, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Ob dem Himmelreich 7, 72074 Tübingen, Germany Corresponding author: Fabiano F. Albertoni (
[email protected]) Academic editor: A. Frolov | Received 20 December 2013 | Accepted 17 February 2014 | Published 14 March 2014 Citation: Albertoni FF, Krell F-T, Steiner J, Zillikens A (2014) Life history and description of larva and pupa of Platyphileurus felscheanus Ohaus, 1910, a scarabaeid feeding on bromeliad tissues in Brazil, to be excluded from Phileurini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae). ZooKeys 389: 49–76. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.389.6888 Abstract The third instar larvae and the pupae of Platyphileurus felscheanus Ohaus, 1910 (Phileurini), recently syn- onymized with Surutu jelineki Endrődi, 1975 (Cyclocephalini), are described and illustrated, and some life history information is given.