Peltonotus favonius Jameson & Wada, 2009

Jameson, Mary Liz & Drumont, Alain, 2013, Aroid scarabs in the genus Peltonotus Burmeister (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae): key to species and new distributional data, ZooKeys 320, pp. 63-95 : 73

Peltonotus favonius Jameson & Wada, 2009 Figs 4, 39, 51, 60, 75

Diagnosis (male and female).

Length ~14.6 mm, color overall black, elytra black or dark reddish brown with iridescent bloom (Fig. 4), head with simple punctures (lacking setae), labrum bi-emarginate, mentum rounded in apical half, labial palpomere 2 not enlarged or obviously dorsoventrally flattened, mala lacking lamellate setal brush (Fig. 39), maxillary stipes without setae curled at apices (Fig. 39), male protibia bidentate (Fig. 51), form of parameres (Fig. 60), female epipleuron broadly expanded, weakly convex, extending from base to metacoxa, lacking incised apex (Fig. 75).

Distribution.

Vietnam and Myanmar.

Remarks.

This species is most similar to Peltonotus pruinosus , a species for which only the female holotype is known. Previously, this species was only known from the male holotype specimen from Vietnam.