Eschatomoxys wagneri Blaisdell 1935

López-Guerrero, Irma, 2007, Figs. 30 – 33. Attavicinus monstrosus. 30 in Comparison of Mouthpart Morphology of Three Species of Mexican Oniticellini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Relation to Their Trophic Habits, The Coleopterists Bulletin 61 (4), pp. 519-540 : 519-540

Eschatomoxys wagneri Blaisdell 1935

( Figs. 2–4 )

Diagnosis. Form elongate, fiddle-shaped, apterous, with long legs and long antennae. Color uniformly castaneous to piceous. Head subrectangular in form, wider than long. Eyes large, posterior margin of eye separated from anterior margin of pronotum by less than two diameters of the eye. Tentorial pits obsolete. Thorax orbicular, wider than long; greatest width slightly before middle. Lateral pronotal margin effaced at middle, anterolateral pronotal angle obtuse, feebly produced. Length of body: 8.4–9.6 mm; width: 3.6–4.2 mm.

Type Locality. Death Valley , Inyo County, California (holotype, CAS, examined) .

Material Examined. 1 male, 1 female: Furnace Creek, Death Valley , Calif. 2-17- 54, FB Turner Coll. [ CAS] 1 male: CALIF . S. Bern. Co. near Barstow, 3- VI- 1975, J. & F. Enik, under stones & debris [ CAS] . 1 male, 1 female: Mine, 160 ft. level, Laguna Dam, Calif. May 20, 1940, Glen M. Kohls Coll. (b) wagneri det. by F.E. Blaisdell [ CAS] . 1 male: California, Inyo Co. Funeral Mountains, Pyramid Peak , 17 January 1962, C. Jorgensen [ BYUC] . 1 male: USA, California, San Bernardino Co. Saratoga Springs, 10 June 1959, Ernest R . Tinkham. (b) Eschatomoxys sp. Det. J. Doyen. 1 female: Salt Creek, Death Valley , Calif. Mar. 27 – Ap. 3, 1949. (b) Eschatomoxys wagneri Blaisd. , det. J. Doyen 64 [ CAS] . 1 female: Moencopie, Ariz. Moencopie Wash, Coconino Co., VII-24-52. M. Cazier, R. Schrammel coll. [ AMNH] .

Figures

Figs. 2–3. Eschatomoxys wagneri. 2) Epistoma, frontal view; 3) lateral view of pronotum, marginal bead obsolete.

Figs. 4–5. Eschatomoxys spp. head and pronotum, lateral view. 4) E. wagneri, with relatively large eyes; 5) E. pholetor, with relatively small eyes.