Spasalus crenatus (MacLeay, 1819)

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

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scientific name

Spasalus crenatus (MacLeay, 1819)
status

 

16. Spasalus crenatus (MacLeay, 1819) View in CoL

Fig. 19 View Figure 19

Diagnosis.

17.6-18.2 mm total length. Body robust. Mediofrontal and laterofrontal fused, large. Central tubercle with apex not free. Eyes large. Antennal with five lamellae. Lacinia with apex unidentate. Mediobasal area of mentum protruding, with setae along almost its entire extension. Marginal groove widened, occupying 2/3 of the anterior margin of the pronotum. Anterior border of mentum almost straight. Prosternellum rhomboidal. Anterior ventral border of the profemur with conspicuous groove.

Comments.

Distributed widely in South America, this species has been recorded also in Lesser Antilles and Puerto Rico ( Jiménez-Ferbans et al. 2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Passalidae

Genus

Spasalus