Passalus serankuai
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Passalidae
Genus: Passalus
Name
Passalus serankuai Jiménez-Ferbans, Reyes-Castillo & Amat-García, 2014 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
28.7–34.2 mm total length. Body slightly flattened. Anterior border of frons with two prominent secondary mediofrontal tubercles, almost completely fused. Mediofrontal and laterofrontal fused, large. Central tubercle with apex very free, reaching or surpassing anterior frons border. Lateroposterior tubercles small, distinct. Eyes large. Antennal club tri-lamellate, with lamellae long. Lacinia with apex bidentate. Mediobasal area of mentum protruding and pubescent. Marginal pronotal groove occupying 2/3 of the pronotum anterior border. Prosternellum rhomboidal, truncate. Mesosternum glabrous, with distinct and elongate scars. Metasternum pubescent anterolaterally, lateral groove glabrous; disc smooth and delimited by punctations excluding the anterior part. Humeri pubescent, epipleura with some setae basally. Last abdominal sternite with complete marginal groove. Anterior ventral border of the profemur with conspicuous groove. Meso- and metatibia with small spines or unarmed.
Comments
Described from SNSM, this species seems to be endemic to this biogeographical province.
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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