Veturius sinuosus (Drapiez, 1820)

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 : 508

Veturius sinuosus (Drapiez, 1820)

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Type locality. Brazil.

Diagnosis. 33–41 mm total length. Anterior margin of labrum slightly concave, without excavation in labrum behind concavity of margin. Clypeus exposed, visible dorsally, with anterior angles well developed. Frontoclypeal suture absent. Frontal fossae smooth and glabrous. Internal tubercles large. Central tubercle with apex not free; basolateral tubercles curved, small, but marked. Antennal club with three short lamellae. Apex of lacinia bidentate. Mentum with medial base protruding and glabrous. Prosternal process rhomboidal, acute. Mesosternum pubescent, without scars. Antero-lateral metasternum and lateral groove pubescent, glabrous, disc not delimited by punctures or reduced punctures basally. Humeri and epipleura glabrous.

Distribution. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela ( Boucher 2005).

Comments. We did not review material from the Antilles of this species; the diagnosis and measurements are based on Boucher (2005) and material from Brazil and Venezuela deposited in the IEXA colletion.

Hunt (1982) described one new species of Nematoda from the gut of Veturius sinuosus from Trinidad, citing it as “ Veturius transversus var. trituberculatus (Esch.) ”, due to synonymy of V. sinuosus with V. transversus (Dalman) . However, Boucher (2005) revalidated V. sinuosus .

Figures

FIGURES 19 – 22. Head and pronotum, dorsal view. 19. Spasalus crenatus. 20. Popilius tetraphyllus. 21. Ver res furcilabris. 22. Veturius sinuosus. Scale bars: 1 mm.