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Macrodactylus tibialis Arce-Perez & Moron 2005

Description

Macrodactylus tibialis Arce-Pérez & Morón, 2005

Figs. 54, 75–77, 84

Material examined. 115 specimens: 67 ♂, 48 ♀.

Diagnosis. Body length 12.0–12.5 mm; clypeus, antennae, pronotum, elytra, pygidium, apical sternite, femora, and tibiae orange; frons, scutellum, pterothorax, abdomen, and tarsi black; dorsally glabrous (Fig. 54), male with a strong, acute spine near the middle of the inner edge of each protibia; tarsi without ring of white setae; parameres stout, glabrous, evenly curved externally, forming an oval in distal view; apices weakly lanceolate (Figs. 75–76); female similar to male except, protibiae without acute spine; pygidium short, weakly convex; genital plates (Fig. 77).

Natural history. This species inhabits humid montane forests ranging from 1,000 to 1,800 m (additional information in Arce-Pérez & Morón 2005, 2011).

Geographical distribution. Honduras (El Paraíso, Olancho) and Nicaragua (Jinotega, Matagalpa) (Fig. 84).

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 581, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/3819764

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References

  • Arce-Perez, R. & Moron, M. A. (2005) New species and new records of species of Macrodactylus Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Macrodactylini) from Honduras and Nicaragua. Zootaxa, 1012 (1), 23 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1012.1.3
  • Arce-Perez, R. & Moron, M. A. (2011) Los Macrodactylus (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae) de America Central. Editorial Academica Espanola, Saarbrucken, 275 pp.