Passalus (Passalus) punctiger LePeletier & Serville, 1825

Jiménez-Ferbans, Larry, Reyes-Castillo, Pedro & Schuster, Jack C., 2015, Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, Zootaxa 3956 (4), pp. 491-512 : 496-497

Passalus (Passalus) punctiger LePeletier & Serville, 1825

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Type locality. Cayenne, French Guiana.

Diagnosis. 31.5–38.3 mm total length. Clypeus hidden below frons, not visible dorsally, with anterior angles developed. Frons border with two secondary mediofrontal teeth separated by an equal or slightly less distance than the distance separating the secondary mediofrontal tooth from its respective mediofrontal tooth. Frontal fossae glabrous. Medio-frontal tubercles developed, with larger interior tubercles. Central tubercle of MFS with apex little free, basolateral tubercles marked. Antennal club trilamellate. Apex of lacinia bidentate. Mentum with medial base swollen and glabrous. Prosternal process rhomboidal, truncate. Mesosternum glabrous with scars marked and elongate. Antero-lateral mesosternum and lateral groove pubescent, disc delimited by punctures excluding apex. Humeri pubescent, epipleura pubescent in basal third.

Material examined. 17 specimens. SAINT VINCENT: South River, 30.IV.1978, Posion, Paratype, Pass. punctiger arrowiella n. ssp. Det. F. Chalumeau 78 (1 IEXA); Delaway, 31.X.1977, Chalumeau, Paratype, Passalus p unctiger arrowiella Chalum. det. F. Chalumeau 78 (1 IEXA). TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Little Tobago, 15.III.1942, Col & pres by Henry Field, Passalus punctiger St. Farg. det.: F.S. Pereira 1959 (2 FMNH). Trinidad:?. VI.1929, Col. By S. Haweis, Pres. By Miss Becky White, Passalus punctiger St. Farg. det.: F.S. Pereira 1959 (1 FMNH); Brickfield, 15.III.1947, CHNM-Trinidad Zool. Expedition, F. Wonder leg., Passalus punctiger St. Farg. det.: F.S. Pereira 1959 (1 FMNH). St. Andrew County near Sangre Grande, ex palm tree logs on ground, 27.III.1987, cols. P. Hunter, W.T. Atyeo, Passalus (Passalus) elfriedae Lued. Reyes-Castillo , det. 1987, Passalus (Passalus) punctiger Lep. et Serv. det.: Jiménez-Ferbans 2012 (3♂♂ IEXA); same locality, date and collectors, ex decaying log called "Pummarac" tree (2♀♀ IEXA); George County mountains 7 mi. N Port of Spain, ex decaying log, 26.III.1987, cols P. Hunter, W.T. Atyeo, Passalus (Passalus) punctiger Lep. et Serv. Reyes-Castillo , det. 87 (2 IEXA); George County mountains 7 mi. N Port of Spain, ex decaying log, 6.III.1987, cols P. Hunter, W.T. Atyeo, Passalus (Passalus) punctiger Lep. et Serv. Reyes-Castillo , det. 87 (2♀♀, 1♂ IEXA); George County near Sangre Grande, ex decaying log called "Pummarac" tree, 27.III.1987, cols. P. Hunter, W.T. Atyeo, Passalus (Passalus) punctiger Lep. et Serv. Reyes-Castillo , det. 87 (1♂ IEXA).

Distribution. From the United States of America to Argentina and Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago ( Reyes-Castillo 1973, Chalumeau 1978, Schuster 1978, Peck et al. 2002, Peck 2010).

Comments. Ivie & Gillogly (1998) did not report this species, despite citing some papers of Chalumeau, who described Passalus punctiger arrowiella from Saint Vincent (Chalumeau 1978). Luederwaldt (1931), Reyes- Castillo (1973) and other authors have cited P. punctiger from Cuba; however, only Luederwaldt (1931) has cited specimens from this island as “Museu Berlin-Dahlem: Paraguay, Cuba (Coll. Kraatz)”; thus, its presence in Cuba must be confirmed.

Figures

FIGURES 5 – 8. Head and pronotum, dorsal view. 5. Passalus interstitialis. 6. P. trinesides. 7. P. punctiger. 8. P. unicornis. Scale bars: 1 mm.