Macrodactylus hondurensis Arce-Pérez & Morón, 2005

Arce-Pérez, Roberto & Morón, Miguel Ángel, 2020, Review of the species of Macrodactylus Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae) from the Central American Nucleus, Zootaxa 4772 (3), pp. 567-584 : 574-575

Macrodactylus hondurensis Arce-Pérez & Morón, 2005

Figs. 17, 36–38, 84

Material examined. 812 specimens: 25 ♂, 67 ♀.

Diagnosis. Body length 10 mm; integument of the body black; clypeus, antennae, elytra, pygidium, last sternite, femora, tibiae reddish yellow; head, distal half of antennal club, pronotum, scutellum, pterothorax, abdomen, apex of tibiae, and tarsi black; pronotum, elytra, and pygidium with dense mustard-yellow vestiture; tarsi with rings of white setae (Fig. 17), parameres with lanceolate apices and long setae on the external borders (Figs. 36–37). Female with scale-like, mustard yellow setae only at the sides of pronotum; genital plates (Fig. 38).

Natural history. This species inhabits montane forest and the type series was collected at an elevation of 1,800 m (additional information in Arce-Pérez & Morón 2005, 2011).

Geographical distribution. Honduras (Cortés) , El Salvador: Monte Cristo , 23 km N Metapán, 2300 m, 8– 10.v.1971, H.F. Howden, 3♂, 1♀ [ CMNC] new country record (Fig. 84) .