Macrodactylus fulvescens Bates, 1887
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.7 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3843985 |
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Macrodactylus fulvescens Bates, 1887 |
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Macrodactylus fulvescens Bates, 1887
Figs. 16, 33–35, 84
Material examined. 86 specimens: 63 ♂, 23 ♀.
Diagnosis. Body length 10–11 mm; integument of the body black; antennae yellow (antennal club with the apex sometimes darkened); pronotum black, with dense pale yellow vestiture; elytra yellowish red with dense, pale yellow vestiture, the setae slightly flattened; pygidium black with pale yellow vestiture; femora yellow; tibiae yellow, with black apices; tarsi notably darkened or black; abdomen black; tarsi without rings of white setae (Fig. 16); parameres glabrous or with small white setae, fused dorsobasally, forming an oval in distal view, with apex lanceolate (Figs. 33–34). Female similar to male; genital plates (Fig. 35).
Natural history. This species inhabits forests between 1,000 and 2,500 m in Guatemala (additional information in Arce-Pérez & Morón 2000, 2011).
Geographical distribution. Western and central Mexico (including Chiapas) to south-central Guatemala (Coyotenango, Huhuetenango, Santa Rosa) (Fig. 84).
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