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