Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) of the Greater and Lesser Antilles
Author
Jiménez-Ferbans, Larry
Author
Reyes-Castillo, Pedro
Author
Schuster, Jack C.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3956
4
491
512
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.3
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1175-5326
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Veturius sinuosus
(Drapiez, 1820)
(
Fig. 22
)
Type
locality
.
Brazil
.
Diagnosis
.
33–41 mm
total length. Anterior margin of labrum slightly concave, without excavation in labrum behind concavity of margin. Clypeus exposed, visible dorsally, with anterior angles well developed. Frontoclypeal suture absent. Frontal fossae smooth and glabrous. Internal tubercles large. Central tubercle with apex not free; basolateral tubercles curved, small, but marked. Antennal club with three short lamellae. Apex of lacinia bidentate. Mentum with medial base protruding and glabrous. Prosternal process rhomboidal, acute. Mesosternum pubescent, without scars. Antero-lateral metasternum and lateral groove pubescent, glabrous, disc not delimited by punctures or reduced punctures basally. Humeri and epipleura glabrous.
Distribution.
Argentina
,
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Colombia
,
Ecuador
,
French Guiana
,
Guyana
,
Paraguay
,
Peru
,
Trinidad and Tobago
, and
Venezuela
(
Boucher 2005
).
Comments
. We did not review material from the Antilles of this species; the diagnosis and measurements are based on
Boucher (2005)
and material from
Brazil
and
Venezuela
deposited in the IEXA colletion.
Hunt (1982)
described one new species of Nematoda from the gut of
Veturius sinuosus
from
Trinidad
, citing it as “
Veturius transversus var. trituberculatus
(Esch.)
”, due to synonymy of
V
.
sinuosus
with
V
.
transversus
(Dalman)
. However,
Boucher (2005)
revalidated
V. sinuosus
.