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

16. Spasalus crenatus (MacLeay, 1819)

Fig. 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).

Figures

Figure 19. Spasalus crenatus (MacLeay, 1819) A head and pronotum in dorsal view B habitus dorsal C habitus ventral D habitus lateral. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A); 2.0 mm (B, C, D).