Passalus gaboi
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Passalidae
Genus: Passalus
Name
Passalus gaboi Jiménez-Ferbans & Reyes-Castillo, 2022 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
31.6–34.2 mm total length. Body robust. Anterior border of the frons with small middle indentation, without secondary mediofrontal tubercles. Mediofrontal and laterofrontal fused, midsize. Central tubercle with apex not free. Lateroposterior tubercles slightly distinct and rounded. Eyes reduced, with canthus covering 1/2 of the eye in lateral view. Antennal club tri-lamellate, with lamellae long. Lacinia with apex bidentate. Mediobasal area of mentum protruding and heavily punctate and pubescent. Marginal groove wide, occupying 3/4 of the anterior margin of the pronotum. Prosternellum rhomboidal, truncate. Mesosternum without mesosternal scars, indicated only by an opaque area, impunctate and glabrous. Metasternum pubescent anterolaterally and in lateral groove; disc smooth and delimited by numerous punctations medially and posteriorly. Humeri and epipleura glabrous. Last abdominal sternite with complete marginal groove. Anterior ventral border of the profemur with thin groove. Mesotibiae with small spines on the outer margin. Metatibiae unarmed.
Comments
Passalus gaboi had been the last species described from the Colombian Caribbean. It seems to be endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
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
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