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Veturius

Description

Veturius (Vetur ius) aspina Kuwert, 1898

(Figs. 1 a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 9a)

Third instar. Body: length 60.0–63.0 mm, width (prothorax) 12.0 mm; covered with uniform pile of fine, short setae (Fig. 9 a); prosternal setae absent. Primary setal pattern: 4–5 HPA, 1 PD, 4 PSL, 1 MSD, 2–3 MSL, 1 MTD, 2–3 MTL, 1 TM, 1 TSM, 1 TL, 1 AV9 (Table 2). Head: covered with uniform pile of short, golden setae; epicranial suture short; frontal sutures extended to the base of the antennae; width of head capsule 7.0–8.0 mm (Fig. 1 a). Mandibles without micro-asperities on the ventral base. Maxillary stipes with 13 micro-conical projections (Fig.

2a). Legs: pars stridens (mesocoxae) length 1097.80 µm, width 737.89 µm, distance into striate 20.12 µm, 41 striae; mesocoxae and metacoxae with 2 internal setae. Metathoracic legs covered with short setae and microasperities in medial and posterior areas; anterior margin with 5 well developed teeth, I is the largest tooth, II–V gradually decreasing in size (Fig. 3 a).

* Post-antennal head setae (HPA), dorsal pronotal setae (PD), lateral pronotal shield setae (PSL), dorsal mesonotal setae (MSD), lateral mesonotal setae (MSL), dorsal metanotal setae (MTD), lateral metanotal setae (MTL), median tergal setae (TM), submedial tergal setae (TSM), lateral tergal setae (TL), ventral abdominal setae (AV), anal ring setae (AR).

Abdomen: raster with setae; anal ring with 20–22 setae; anal slit T-shaped (Fig. 4 a).

Distribution. Species with geographical distribution from Honduras to Ecuador (Boucher 2006). Material examined. COLOMBIA, TOLIMA, Municipio Ibagué, vereda Potrerillo, Sur el Totumo, 4°23'21''N 75°12'55.7''W, 1040 m, 5.vi.2008. G. Amat, P. Reyes-Castillo, & L. Jiménez (5 specimens). COLOMBIA, ANTIOQUIA, Gómez Plata, vereda Vega Botero, 940 m, 12.vii.2011. Reyes-Castillo, Jiménez-Ferbans, Salazar- Niño, & Amat-García (5 specimens).

Notes

Published as part of Salazar-Niño, Karen & Serrão, José Eduardo, 2015, Description of the immature stages of nine species of Veturius (Coleoptera: Passalidae), pp. 94-108 in Zootaxa 3925 (1) on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/232510

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Passallidae
Genus
Veturius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Boucher, S. (2006) Evolution et phylogenie des Coleopteres Passalidae (Scarabaeoidea). Les taxons du groupe famille. La tribu neotropicale des Proculini et son complexe Veturius. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 41, 239 - 604. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00379271.2005.10697444.