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Macrodactylus championi Bates 1887

Description

Macrodactylus championi Bates, 1887

Figs. 14, 27–29, 85

Material examined. 73 specimens: 41 ♂, 32 ♀.

Diagnosis. Body length 13 mm, dorsally glabrous, totally black with steel blue iridescence; antennal flagellum, anal plate, pygidium, and legs (except tarsi) reddish; venter with long, yellowish-red vestiture; tarsi with rings of long, white setae (Fig. 14); parameres large, circular with outer margins slightly angulate and a protuberance near the base (lateral view), and their apices lanceolate and acute, with rows of long, thin setae on lateral margin in distal half (Figs. 27–28). Female similar to the male except as follows: pronotum with abundant recumbent vestiture, long and velvety orange; pygidial plate domed, slightly prominent; genital plates (Fig. 29).

Natural history. Adults are active in temperate and cold environments such as cloud and pine forests in Chiapas and Guatemala, ranging from 1,650 to 2,800 m (additional information in Arce-Pérez & Morón 2000, 2011).

Geographical distribution. Mexico (Chiapas) and Guatemala (Baja Verapaz, Totonicapan) (Fig. 85).

Notes

Published as part of Arce-Pérez, Roberto & Morón, Miguel Ángel, 2020, Review of the species of Macrodactylus Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae) from the Central American Nucleus, pp. 567-584 in Zootaxa 4772 (3) on page 574, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/3819764

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bates
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Melolonthidae
Genus
Macrodactylus
Species
championi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Macrodactylus championi Bates, 1887 sec. Arce-Pérez & Morón, 2020

References

  • Bates, H. W. (1887) Pectinicornia and Lamellicornia. In: Salvin, O. & Godman, F. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta, Coleoptera, volume 2, part 2. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 25 - 160. Available from: www. biodiversitylibrary. org / item / 135502 # page / 10 / mode / 1 up (accessed 27 February 2020)
  • Arce-Perez, R. & Moron, M. A. (2000) Taxonomia y distribucion de las especies de Macrodactylus Latreille (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae) en Mexico y Estados Unidos de America. Acta Zoologica Mexicana, New Series, 97, 123 - 239. Available from: http: // www. scielo. org. mx / scielo. php? script = sci _ arttext & pid = S 0065 - 17372000000100009 & lng = es & nrm = iso & tlng = es (accessed 27 February 2020)
  • Arce-Perez, R. & Moron, M. A. (2011) Los Macrodactylus (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae) de America Central. Editorial Academica Espanola, Saarbrucken, 275 pp.