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Balgus subfasciatus

Description

Balgus subfasciatus (Bonvouloir, 1875)

Pterotarsus subfasciatus Bonvouloir, 1875: 832, 840 (original description). Balgus subfasciatus Fleutiaux, 1920: 98 (new combination); Schenkling, 1928: 7 (catalogue); Blackwelder, 1944: 275 (catalogue).

Diagnosis. S ubcylindrical body; dorsal and ventral region covered with sparse yellow pubescence; posterior angle of pronotum with short and oblique carina; scutellum carinate; elytra with anterior suboval tubercle, covered with strong rugosities, posterior half of elytra without tubercles; longitudinal median carina of ventrite 5 with four small teeth.

Female genitalia: unknown.

Aedeagus: unknown.

Etymology. [sub + fasciatus]. sub, from Latin, “below”, “less” or “almost”, fasciatus, from Latin, “with bands”, in reference to the elytral pattern of bands.

Distribution. Colombia (Figure 15).

Type locality. Colombia (Bonvouloir, 1875).

Note. This species was not evaluated in this study, material was not available. The diagnosis was based on the original description and this species was not included into the matrix, because of the large amount of missing data.

Notes

Published as part of Barbosa, Felipe Francisco, 2016, Revision and phylogeny of the genus Balgus Fleutiaux, 1920 (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Thylacosterninae), pp. 451-482 in Zootaxa 4083 (4) on page 468, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4083.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1050907

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Eucnemidae
Genus
Balgus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Bonvouloir
Species
subfasciatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Balgus subfasciatus (Bonvouloir, 1875) sec. Barbosa, 2016

References

  • Bonvouloir, H. (1875) Monographie de la Famille des Eucnemides (parts 3 & 4). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, Sereis 4, 10, 561 - 907.
  • Fleutiaux, E. (1920) Etudes sur les Melasidae (Coleoptera Serricornia), Premiere partie. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 60, 93 - 104.
  • Schenkling, S. (1928) Melasidae. Pars 96. In: Schenkling, S. (Eds.), Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio. W. Junk., Berlin, pp. 1 - 110.
  • Blackwelder, R. E. (1944) Check List of the Coleopterous Insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. Bulletin United States National Museum, 185 (2), 275 - 276.