Eurysternus impressicollis Castelnau, 1840

Taboada-Verona, Carlos, Sermeño-Correa, Carlos, Sierra-Serrano, Oscar & Noriega, Jorge Ari, 2019, Checklist of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Insecta, Coleoptera) in an urban area of the Caribbean Colombia, Check List 15 (4), pp. 579-594 : 588

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/15.4.579

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F9706-FFCE-545B-BFCA-37713ACE1294

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scientific name

Eurysternus impressicollis Castelnau, 1840
status

 

Eurysternus impressicollis Castelnau, 1840 View in CoL

Figure 5J

Geographic distribution. Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela ( Génier 2009, Camero-Rubio 2010, Lozano 2010). In Colombia: Amazonas, Antioquia, Arauca, Atlántico, Bolívar, Caldas, Caquetá, Cesar, Córdoba, Cundinamarca, Guainía, Guajira, Magdalena, and Sucre ( Camero-Rubio 2010, Noriega et al. 2013, González-Alvarado and Medina 2015).

Material examined. Colombia, Sucre, Sincelejo, University of Sucre campus (09°18′52″N, 075°23′18″W), 2016/05/23, MZUSU E02566-72 (7, sex undetermined), MZUSU E02653 (6, sex undetermined).

Identification. This species belongs to the impressicollis group and is distinguished by the pronotal surface

with depressions or roughness, elytra with well-defined striae, and strongly developed apical tubercle at the third interstriae.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Eurysternus

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