Rhodocanthopus rufiventris ( Jimenez-Ferbans , Reyes-Castillo & Gonzalez , 2016)

Jimenez-Ferbans, Larry, Maestre-Guerra, Ana, Villalba-Fuentes, Evelin, Barros-Barrios, Mayelis M. & Munoz-Montero, Jeison, 2023, Passalidae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia: synopsis, key, and new species description, ZooKeys 1179, pp. 243-297 : 243

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1179.104037

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1C2AC35B-2766-4077-BA9B-3EB4E8E8452A

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3BDEE053-E734-53D8-BECF-DCC3D809C8A4

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scientific name

Rhodocanthopus rufiventris ( Jimenez-Ferbans , Reyes-Castillo & Gonzalez , 2016)
status

 

15. Rhodocanthopus rufiventris ( Jimenez-Ferbans, Reyes-Castillo & Gonzalez, 2016) View in CoL View at ENA

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Diagnosis.

14.0-16.5 mm total length. Body flattened. Anterior border of frons with strong middle indentation, on the sides of which are two insinuated tubercles. Mediofrontal and laterofrontal fused, large. Central tubercle with apex not free. Lateroposterior tubercles distinct and transverse. Eyes reduced. Antennal club tri-lamellate, lamellae short. Lacinia with apex bidentate. Mediobasal area of mentum protruding and glabrous. Marginal groove widened, occupying 1/2 of the anterior margin of the pronotum. Prosternellum rhomboidal, truncate. Mesosternum glabrous; mesosternal scars elongated and conspicuous. Metasternum glabrous anterolaterally and in lateral groove; disc smooth and delimited by punctations posteriorly to laterally. Humeri glabrous; epipleura with scattered setae in basal area. Anterior ventral border of the profemur with conspicuous groove. Meso- and metatibiae with strong spines.

Comments.

Described from the Chocó department of Colombia ( Jiménez-Ferbans et al. 2016), this species seems to be endemic to the Chocó-Magdalena province.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Passalidae

Genus

Rhodocanthopus