Macrodactylus suavis Bates, 1887

Arce-Pérez, Roberto & Morón, Miguel Ángel, 2020, Review of the species of Macrodactylus Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae) from the Central American Nucleus, Zootaxa 4772 (3), pp. 567-584 : 580

Macrodactylus suavis Bates, 1887

Figs. 52, 69–71, 86

Material examined. 1 ♂ (syntype).

Diagnosis. Body length 9.5–10.5 mm; integument black, with strong sericeous shine; pronotum black with a slight band of yellow setae in apical half, and sparse setae near borders of disc; scutellum with abundant vestitute; elytra with strong sericeous shine, basal half reddish-brown and apical half black or dark brown; with a wide yellow band of setae on the inner half and two light lateral rows; tarsi black without rings of setae (Fig. 52); parameres oval, long, slender, and glabrous, fused dorsobasally, outer margins rounded, apical half long and slender with apices lanceolate (Figs. 69–70); female with vestiture and color similar to male; genital plates (Fig. 71).

Natural history. This species inhabits humid montane forests between 100 and 1,600 m (additional information in Arce-Pérez & Morón 2005, 2011, 2018).

Geographical distribution. Nicaragua (Chontales), Costa Rica, and Panama (Fig. 86).