Phileurus toulgoeti Dechambre, 1996

Ratcliffe, Brett C., 2011, A Review of the Species ofPhileurusLatreille (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Phileurini) with Quadridentate Protibiae and Description of a New Species from Panama, The Coleopterists Bulletin 65 (2), pp. 125-129 : 126

Phileurus toulgoeti Dechambre, 1996 ( Fig. 2 )

Phileurus toulgoeti Dechambre 1996: 92 (original combination).

Phileurus toulgoeti is known only from French Guiana. This species has extremely dense punctation on the pronotum and elytral intervals, more so than in any other species of Phileurus . The median processes of the parameres are long and curved similar to those of P. zonianis , but the apices of each lobe are directed nearly horizontally in caudal view ( Fig. 2 ), whereas the lobes in P. zonianis are directed downwards ( Figs. 5–6 ). In addition, the prosternal process is setose in P. toulgoeti and glabrous in the specimens of P. zonianis . Nothing is known of the natural history of this uncommon species.

Figures

Figs. 1–7. Parameres of 1) Phileurus didymus; 2) Phileurus toulgoeti; 3) Phileurus valgus; 4) Phileurus voirinae; 5–7) Phileurus zonianis.