Passalus (Pertinax) paucuvillosus Jimenez-Ferbans , Reyes-Castillo & Schuster, 2018

Jimenez-Ferbans, Larry, Maestre-Guerra, Ana, Villalba-Fuentes, Evelin, Barros-Barrios, Mayelis M. & Munoz-Montero, Jeison, 2023, Passalidae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia: synopsis, key, and new species description, ZooKeys 1179, pp. 243-297 : 243

9. Passalus (Pertinax) paucuvillosus Jimenez-Ferbans, Reyes-Castillo & Schuster, 2018

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Diagnosis.

22.9-25.5 mm total length. Body robust. Anterior border of the frons straight, with small and irregular tubercles, without secondary mediofrontal tubercles. Mediofrontal and laterofrontal fused, small, projected forward. Central tubercle small, with apex not free. Lateroposterior tubercles small, slightly distinct. Eyes large. Antennal club tri-lamellate, with lamellae short. Lacinia with apex bidentate. Mediobasal area of mentum protruding and glabrous. Marginal groove widened, occupying 2/3 of the anterior margin of the pronotum. Prosternellum rhomboidal, truncate. Mesosternum glabrous; mesosternal scars absent. Metasternum glabrous anterolaterally and in lateral groove; disc smooth and delimited by punctations posteriorly. Humeri and epipleura glabrous. Anterior ventral border of the profemur with thin groove. Meso- and metatibiae with small spines or unarmed.

Comments.

Described from the Chocó department of Colombia ( Jiménez-Ferbans et al. 2018b), this species seems to be endemic to the Chocó-Magdalena province.

Figures

Figure 12. Passalus (Pertinax) paucuvillosus Jimenez-Ferbans, Reyes-Castillo & Schuster, 2018 A head and pronotum in dorsal view B habitus dorsal C habitus ventral D habitus lateral. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A); 2.0 mm (B, C, D).