Passalus (Passalus) abortivus Percheron, 1835

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 : 492-493

Passalus (Passalus) abortivus Percheron, 1835

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Type locality. Unknown ( Percheron 1835).

Diagnosis. 28.2–30.6 mm total length. Clypeus hidden below frons, not visible dorsally, with anterior angles developed. Frons border with two secondary median-frontal teeth united basally. Frontal fossae pubescent. Medialfrontal tubercles developed; internal tubercles large, not united by a ridge to the medial-frontal tubercles, located at half the distance between the median frontal structure (MFS) and the medial-frontal tubercles. Central tubercle of MFS with apex not free, basolateral tubercles marked. Antennal club trilamellate. Apex of lacinia bidentate. Medial-basal mentum elevated and glabrous. Prosternal process rhomboidal, angled sharply. Mesosternal scar (as defined in Reyes-Castillo 1970) pubescent, marked, and oval. Metasternum pubescent anterolaterally and in lateral groove; disc delimited by punctures from posterior to middle. Humeri pubescent, epipleura pubescent basally.

Material examined. Two specimens. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Trinidad: Arima-Blanchisseuse Rd. Simla Research Station, collected at mercury vapor light, 10°42'N 61°17'W, 800', 22.V–3.VI.2000 Kriska, Katovich (1 UVGC); Asa Wright Nature Ctr. 7.5 mi N. of Arima on Blanchisseuse Road. 21.VI.1984, P.J. Clausen, Passalus abortivus Perch. Det. : JCS 2002 (1 UVGC).

Distribution. Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela, ( Luederwaldt 1931, Reyes-Castillo 1973, Amat-García et al. 2004).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. Head and pronotum, dorsal view. 1. Passalus abortivus. 2. P. bucki. 3. P. coarctatus. 4. P. interruptus. Scale bars: 1 mm.