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Based on male and female fossil beetle remains recorded in the Pilauco deposits (northern Chilean Patagonia), a new and extinct dung beetle genus and species from an upper Pleistocene sequence (16.4 to 12.8 kyr BP) namely, Gomphocopris ashworthi gen. et sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Homocoprini) is described and illustrated. The morphological analysis of these fossil remains suggest that this extinct genus and species are placed into the tribe Homocoprini due to presence of supplementary carina in the lateral area in the pronotum. Moreover, this new taxon is separated from the extant Homocoprini species by the absence hypomeral carina (well developed in all extant species); cephalic horn in males with a distinct posterior projection apically (absent in the extant species), and the unique shapes and disposition of the pronotal lobes in major male and female. We suggest that this dung beetle genus and species became extinct in the late Pleistocene to early Holocene as a consequence of the drastic environmental changes, and the extinction of most of the large mammals, which were the organisms that provided feces for the development of their larvae.

The social impact of the outbreak and spread of the COVID–19 pandemic has shown that we’re not facing a mere infectious disease, but a neoliberal syndemic. This syndemic have stressed all the inequalities, oppressions and conflicts that were at the base of the neoliberal system of governance, contradictions that have reached a global dimension since the Great Recession (2008). In this article we will analyze the consequences of the neoliberal virus in different spheres (macro and micro) from a critical and materialistic perspective: from the management of the crisis by the States to the subjective transformations the syndemic has provoked in the population. Focusing in the Spanish case, we will go over the main reactions, narratives and struggles that have faced the Covid crisis into what we understand as a new and more authoritarian phase of neoliberal capitalism. A phase that will need a radical articulation of social struggles to subvert a horizon that threatens with new oppressions. &nbsp, El impacto social del brote y propagación de la pandemia del COVID-19 nos ha mostrado que no estamos ante una mera enfermedad infecciosa, sino ante una sindemia neoliberal. Esta sindemia ha acentuado todas las desigualdades, opresiones y conflictos que estaban en la base del sistema de gobernanza neoliberal, contradicciones que han alcanzado una dimensión global desde la Gran Recesión (2008). En este artículo analizaremos las consecuencias del virus neoliberal en diferentes ámbitos (macro y micro) desde una perspectiva crítica y materialista: desde la gestión de la crisis por parte de los Estados hasta las transformaciones subjetivas que la sindemia ha provocado en la población. Centrándonos en el caso español, repasaremos algunas de las principales reacciones, narrativas y luchas que se han enfrentado la crisis del COVID en lo que entendemos como una nueva fase más autoritaria del capitalismo neoliberal. Una etapa que precisará una articulación radical de las luchas sociales para subvertir un horizonte que amenaza con nuevas opresiones.