Passalus (Pertinax) latifrons Percheron, 1841

Jiménez-Ferbans, Larry, Reyes-Castillo, Pedro & Schuster, Jack C., 2015, Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, Zootaxa 3956 (4), pp. 491-512 : 501

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.3
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scientific name	Passalus (Pertinax) latifrons Percheron, 1841
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Type locality. Guyane.

Diagnosis. 29.3–30.8 mm total length. Clypeus hidden below frons, not visible dorsally, with anterior angles developed, larger than medio-frontal tubercles. Frons border with weak notch, without secondary medio-frontal tubercles. Frontal fossae glabrous. Medio-frontal tubercles not developed, not joined to interior tubercles. Internal tubercles small and located between medio-frontal tubercles and central tubercle. Central tubercle with apex not free; basolateral tubercles small but marked. Antennal club trilamellate, with short lamellae. Apex of lacinia bidentate. Mentum with medial base swollen and glabrous. Prosternal process rhomboidal, acute. Mesosternum glabrous with scars weak or absent. Antero-lateral metasternum and lateral groove glabrous, disc delimited by sparse punctures in posterior area. Humeri and epipleura glabrous.

Material examined. Six specimens. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Tobago: Forest Preserved, Bloody Bay Rio, log 9' x2 ', 470 m, J.C. Schuster, 13.XII.1981 (2 UVGC). Trinidad: Arima Valley, xii.1981, Simlazo/ 800 ft. alt., #TT-20 alone, J.C. Schuster (1 UVGC); 1 mi. S Maracas Beech 500´6.VIII.1963, col. E. Kjellesvig-Waering, Passalus (Pertinax) latifrons Perch. Reyes-Castillo det. 1985 (1 IEXA); George County mountains 7 mi. N Port of Spain, 26.III.1987, ex decaying log cols. P. Hunter, W.F. Atyeo, Passalus (Pertinax) latifrons Perch. Reyes-Castillo det. 1987 (1 IEXA); Lopinot Valley, Devil Hole, 24.II.1967, J.P.E.C. Darlington (1 FMNH).

Distribution. Brazil, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, ( Reyes-Castillo 1973, Schuster 1992). Kuwert (1891) recorded this species from Colombia and Cuba; but later ( Kuwert 1898), only cited Guyana. We consider the record from Cuba to be erroneous.