<documentid="9DBCCF6BA5078192E49DBB668AF9255E"ID-CLB-Dataset="298249"ID-DOI="10.1653/024.098.0405"ID-GBIF-Dataset="7d14bbc5-e5e9-464f-b58f-e35fe117cfa2"ID-ISSN="1938-5102"ID-Zenodo-Dep="11548347"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="juliana"IM.metadata_approvedBy="juliana"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="juliana"IM.treatments_approvedBy="juliana"checkinTime="1717620029050"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Morón, Miguel Ángel, Lugo-García, Gabriel A. & Aragón-García, Agustín"docDate="2015"docId="03AE87EDFF99CA57FC89A5EBFD84A5D2"docLanguage="en"docName="FlaEntomol.98.4.1036-1043.pdf"docOrigin="Florida Entomologist 98 (4)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.1653/024.098.0405"docStyle="DocumentStyle:C0CD22107794FB65089F701CBA118AA5.2:FlaEntomol.2015-.journal_article"docStyleId="C0CD22107794FB65089F701CBA118AA5"docStyleName="FlaEntomol.2015-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="2"docTitle="Phyllophaga (Listrochelus) balacachiana Morón, Lugo-García & Aragón-García, 2015, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="3"lastPageNumber="1038"masterDocId="FF97FF95FF98CA54FFA1A135FFABA322"masterDocTitle="Five new species of Phyllophaga (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae) of northwestern Mexico"masterLastPageNumber="1043"masterPageNumber="1036"pageNumber="1036"updateTime="1718028493070"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0">
<mods:namePartid="503BE647809BB7EF0A97F7696F701DE6">Morón, Miguel Ángel</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="C15DBAF1F14CD93F254BF71BCE4B8D27">Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología, A. C. Apdo. Postal 63, Xalapa, Veracruz 91000, México</mods:affiliation>
<mods:namePartid="FB94EF88D215E4A1A8DDD0ADC4203603">Lugo-García, Gabriel A.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="770C315AAA472513A8911282D815CD4B">Escuela Superior de Agricultura del Valle del Fuerte, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Calle 16 y Av. Japaraqui, El Estero, Juan José Rios, Ahome, Sinaloa 81110, México</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="DF10D4DA2EC0BDD0C6F7AF1ECB46E415">Centro de Agroecología, Instituto de Ciencias, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 14 Sur 6301, San Manuel, Puebla, Puebla 72570, México</mods:affiliation>
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<figureCitationid="133C2A7EFF99CA55FAD5A5EBFC1DA638"captionStart="Figs"captionStartId="2.[156,193,1529,1547]"captionTargetBox="[144,1536,192,1476]"captionTargetId="figure-226@2.[144,1536,192,1498]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="Figs. 1–16. Habitus and morphological characters of Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species and Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species. 1–4. Habitus of males: 1–2. P. balacachiana, new species, 1. dorsal view, 2. lateral view; 3–4. P. tascatensis, new species, 3. lateral view, 4. dorsal view; scale bar = 2 mm. 5–10. Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species: 5. male tarsal claw; 6–8. male genital capsule: 6. lateral view, 7. distal view, 8. dorsal view; 9. female genital plates, ventral view; 10. female tarsal claw; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 5 and 10 = 0.5 mm. 11–16. Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species: 11. male tarsal claw; 12–14. male genital capsule: 12. lateral view, 13. distal view, 14. dorsal view; 15. female tarsal claw; 16. female genital plates, ventral view; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 11 and 15 = 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11548349"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11548349/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="1036">Figs. 1 and 2, 5–10</figureCitation>
. Head reddish yellow, body and legs testaceous light yellowish (
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). Clypeus wider than long (2.5:1.0), anterior border slightly curved, with margin clearly elevated, surface slightly convex at center, covered with punctures,glabrous. Frons wider than long (2.4:1.0), slightly concave, with irregularly distributed punctures, glabrous, 3.2
wider than each eye’s dorsal diameter. Canthus with 10 setae. Vertex with a transverse carinate ridge. Occipital area without punctures. Antenna 10-segmented; with club 1.1
wider than head including eyes. Pronotal disc with shallow, small punctures regularly separated and distributed on disc, but less dense near posterior half of midline; lateral margins obtusely angled, widest just behind middle, lateral marginal bead irregularly crenulate, with long, slender setae; anterior marginal bead without setae; anterior angles obtuse, not prominent; posterior angles widely obtuse, rounded. Scutellum 1.1
wider than long, with 12 shallow, minute, round punctures. Elytron 3.0× longer than wide, with shallow, rugose, round punctures along the striae and weakly rugo-punctate interstriae, with scattered minute setae on disc, the only regular line of erect setae occurs along external border. Pterosternum with long, abundant light yellow setae. Protibia shorter than protarsus (1.0:1.5). Metatibia shorter than metatarsus (1.0:1.2). Tarsal claws regularly bi-pectinate (
<figureCitationid="133C2A7EFF9ACA56FED0A6FEFE00A4FD"box="[369,427,1995,2015]"captionStart="Figs"captionStartId="2.[156,193,1529,1547]"captionTargetBox="[144,1536,192,1476]"captionTargetId="figure-226@2.[144,1536,192,1498]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="Figs. 1–16. Habitus and morphological characters of Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species and Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species. 1–4. Habitus of males: 1–2. P. balacachiana, new species, 1. dorsal view, 2. lateral view; 3–4. P. tascatensis, new species, 3. lateral view, 4. dorsal view; scale bar = 2 mm. 5–10. Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species: 5. male tarsal claw; 6–8. male genital capsule: 6. lateral view, 7. distal view, 8. dorsal view; 9. female genital plates, ventral view; 10. female tarsal claw; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 5 and 10 = 0.5 mm. 11–16. Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species: 11. male tarsal claw; 12–14. male genital capsule: 12. lateral view, 13. distal view, 14. dorsal view; 15. female tarsal claw; 16. female genital plates, ventral view; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 11 and 15 = 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11548349"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11548349/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="1037">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología, A. C. Apdo. Postal 63, Xalapa,
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<figureCitationid="133C2A7EFF9ACA56FB32A7F6FB61A5F5"box="[1171,1226,1731,1751]"captionStart="Figs"captionStartId="2.[156,193,1529,1547]"captionTargetBox="[144,1536,192,1476]"captionTargetId="figure-226@2.[144,1536,192,1498]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="Figs. 1–16. Habitus and morphological characters of Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species and Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species. 1–4. Habitus of males: 1–2. P. balacachiana, new species, 1. dorsal view, 2. lateral view; 3–4. P. tascatensis, new species, 3. lateral view, 4. dorsal view; scale bar = 2 mm. 5–10. Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species: 5. male tarsal claw; 6–8. male genital capsule: 6. lateral view, 7. distal view, 8. dorsal view; 9. female genital plates, ventral view; 10. female tarsal claw; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 5 and 10 = 0.5 mm. 11–16. Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species: 11. male tarsal claw; 12–14. male genital capsule: 12. lateral view, 13. distal view, 14. dorsal view; 15. female tarsal claw; 16. female genital plates, ventral view; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 11 and 15 = 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11548349"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11548349/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="1037">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
), prominent, glossy, with sparse, round,shallow setiferous punctures mainly at sides; apical margin with 9 medium-size setae. Fifh abdominal sternite slightly convex, weakly furrowed on midline; anal plate short, weakly furrowed on midline, with 20 short setae, posterior margin entire at middle. Parameres large, wide, fused dorsally (
<figureCitationid="133C2A7EFF9ACA56FC4FA660FBE0A44B"box="[1006,1099,1877,1897]"captionStart="Figs"captionStartId="2.[156,193,1529,1547]"captionTargetBox="[144,1536,192,1476]"captionTargetId="figure-226@2.[144,1536,192,1498]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="Figs. 1–16. Habitus and morphological characters of Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species and Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species. 1–4. Habitus of males: 1–2. P. balacachiana, new species, 1. dorsal view, 2. lateral view; 3–4. P. tascatensis, new species, 3. lateral view, 4. dorsal view; scale bar = 2 mm. 5–10. Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species: 5. male tarsal claw; 6–8. male genital capsule: 6. lateral view, 7. distal view, 8. dorsal view; 9. female genital plates, ventral view; 10. female tarsal claw; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 5 and 10 = 0.5 mm. 11–16. Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species: 11. male tarsal claw; 12–14. male genital capsule: 12. lateral view, 13. distal view, 14. dorsal view; 15. female tarsal claw; 16. female genital plates, ventral view; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 11 and 15 = 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11548349"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11548349/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="1037">Figs. 7–8</figureCitation>
), clearly dentate before apex, lateral border weakly carinate; tectum large, uniformly convex, with 2 basal rounded prominences; aedeagus much longer, sclerotized support curved downward and widely bifurcate apically (
<figureCitationid="133C2A7EFF9ACA56FB08A698FAA8A4E3"box="[1193,1283,1965,1985]"captionStart="Figs"captionStartId="2.[156,193,1529,1547]"captionTargetBox="[144,1536,192,1476]"captionTargetId="figure-226@2.[144,1536,192,1498]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="Figs. 1–16. Habitus and morphological characters of Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species and Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species. 1–4. Habitus of males: 1–2. P. balacachiana, new species, 1. dorsal view, 2. lateral view; 3–4. P. tascatensis, new species, 3. lateral view, 4. dorsal view; scale bar = 2 mm. 5–10. Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species: 5. male tarsal claw; 6–8. male genital capsule: 6. lateral view, 7. distal view, 8. dorsal view; 9. female genital plates, ventral view; 10. female tarsal claw; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 5 and 10 = 0.5 mm. 11–16. Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species: 11. male tarsal claw; 12–14. male genital capsule: 12. lateral view, 13. distal view, 14. dorsal view; 15. female tarsal claw; 16. female genital plates, ventral view; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 11 and 15 = 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11548349"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11548349/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="1037">Figs. 6–8</figureCitation>
). Length of genital capsule from the apex of parameres to the border of basal piece
. Antennal club nearly as long as preceding 5 segments combined (1.1:1.0). Anterior border of clypeus nearly straight at middle. Punctation on clypeus, frons, pronotum, and elytra denser and deeper. Pygidium flattened on basal half, shallowly depressed on distal half, with scattered setiferous small punctures; marginal bead widened near apex, with 14 short setae. Fifh sternite widely convex with few lateral short setae. Anal plate convex, with numerous short and medium-size setae. Tarsal claws irregularly serrate-dentate along external ventral borders, and irregularly pectinate along internal ventral borders (
<figureCitationid="133C2A7EFF9BCA57FE27A0C3FE61A128"box="[390,458,502,522]"captionStart="Figs"captionStartId="2.[156,193,1529,1547]"captionTargetBox="[144,1536,192,1476]"captionTargetId="figure-226@2.[144,1536,192,1498]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="Figs. 1–16. Habitus and morphological characters of Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species and Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species. 1–4. Habitus of males: 1–2. P. balacachiana, new species, 1. dorsal view, 2. lateral view; 3–4. P. tascatensis, new species, 3. lateral view, 4. dorsal view; scale bar = 2 mm. 5–10. Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species: 5. male tarsal claw; 6–8. male genital capsule: 6. lateral view, 7. distal view, 8. dorsal view; 9. female genital plates, ventral view; 10. female tarsal claw; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 5 and 10 = 0.5 mm. 11–16. Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species: 11. male tarsal claw; 12–14. male genital capsule: 12. lateral view, 13. distal view, 14. dorsal view; 15. female tarsal claw; 16. female genital plates, ventral view; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 11 and 15 = 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11548349"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11548349/files/figure.png"pageId="3"pageNumber="1038">Fig. 10</figureCitation>
). Ventral genital plates irregularly concave, with apical border membranous, widely sinuate. Dorsal genital plates not fused, irregularly excavate, with rounded and irregularly reflexed apical border, with few short setae near the border (
<figureCitationid="133C2A7EFF9BCA57FDDEA37BFD1FA140"box="[639,692,590,610]"captionStart="Figs"captionStartId="2.[156,193,1529,1547]"captionTargetBox="[144,1536,192,1476]"captionTargetId="figure-226@2.[144,1536,192,1498]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="Figs. 1–16. Habitus and morphological characters of Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species and Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species. 1–4. Habitus of males: 1–2. P. balacachiana, new species, 1. dorsal view, 2. lateral view; 3–4. P. tascatensis, new species, 3. lateral view, 4. dorsal view; scale bar = 2 mm. 5–10. Phyllophaga balacachiana, new species: 5. male tarsal claw; 6–8. male genital capsule: 6. lateral view, 7. distal view, 8. dorsal view; 9. female genital plates, ventral view; 10. female tarsal claw; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 5 and 10 = 0.5 mm. 11–16. Phyllophaga tascatensis, new species: 11. male tarsal claw; 12–14. male genital capsule: 12. lateral view, 13. distal view, 14. dorsal view; 15. female tarsal claw; 16. female genital plates, ventral view; scale bar = 1 mm, except in Figs. 11 and 15 = 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11548349"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11548349/files/figure.png"pageId="3"pageNumber="1038">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
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, but in the latter the parameres have an acute projection dorsally, and the surface of elytra in both sexes is clothed with scattered minute setae. See modification of the
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