Peltonotus tigerus 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 : 81

Peltonotus tigerus Jameson & Wada, 2009 Figs 17, 44, 90

Diagnosis (female only).

Length ~13.7 mm, overall color black or castaneous, elytra reddish-brown with weak iridescent bloom (Fig. 17), head with some punctures multisetigerous, labrum bi-emarginate, labial palpomere 2 enlarged and dorsoventrally flattened, mala with well developed lamellate setal brush (Fig. 44), maxillary stipes without setae curled at apices (Fig. 44), female epipleuron incised with a round or oval emargination (Fig. 90).

Distribution.

Thailand.

Remarks.

We hypothesize that males of this species will possess reddish-brown elytra, similar to the coloration of the female.