Spasalus crenatus

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Taxonavigation

Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Passalidae
Genus: Spasalus

Name

Spasalus crenatus (MacLeay, 1819) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile

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).

Taxon Treatment

• Jiménez-Ferbans, L; Maestre-Guerra, A; Villalba-Fuentes, E; Barros-Barrios, M; Muñoz-Montero, J; 2023: Passalidae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia: synopsis, key, and new species description ZooKeys, 1179: 243-297. doi

Images

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).