Passalidae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia: synopsis, key, and new species description Jimenez-Ferbans, Larry Maestre-Guerra, Ana Villalba-Fuentes, Evelin Barros-Barrios, Mayelis M. Munoz-Montero, Jeison ZooKeys 2023 2023-09-12 1179 243 297 4DXVG 2211546 04FB106E-30AA-57B2-9110-7941C7860C2A Percheron, 1835 Percheron 1835 Insecta Passalidae Passalus CoL Animalia Passalus (Pertinax) punctatostriatus Coleoptera 0 243 Arthropoda species punctatostriatus Pertinax   Fig. 13  Diagnosis. 21.8-26.0 mm total length. Body subcylindrical. Anterior border of the frons with strong middle indentation, without secondary mediofrontal tubercles. Mediofrontal and laterofrontal fused, large. Central tubercle with apex not free. Lateroposterior tubercles small, slightly distinct. Eyes large. Antennal club tri-lamellate, with lamellae long. Lacinia with apex bidentate. Mediobasal area of mentum protruding and glabrous. Marginal groove widened, occupying 2/3 of the anterior margin of the pronotum. Prosternellum rhomboidal, acute. Mesosternum glabrous; mesosternal scars inconspicuous and elongated. Metasternum glabrous anterolaterally and in lateral groove; disc smooth and delimited by punctations posteriorly to laterally. Humeri glabrous and epipleura with some scarce setae basally or glabrous. Anterior ventral border of the profemur with groove. Meso- and metatibiae with small spines or unarmed.   Figure 13. Passalus (Pertinax) punctatostriatusPercheron, 1835 Ahead and pronotum in dorsal view Bhabitus dorsal Chabitus ventral Dhabitus lateral. Scale bars: 2.0 mm ( A); 3.0 mm ( B, C, D).  Comments. Distributed from Mexico to central and northern Colombia.  Amat-Garciaet al. (2004)cited this species from the Amazon region, but without citing specimens. We doubt its presence in southern Colombia.  P. punctatostriatushas been collected in shady coffee plantations in Serraniadel Perijaand in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (  Jimenez-Ferbansand Amat-Garcia2009).