Spasalus paulinae Amat-Garcia & Fonseca, 1998

Jimenez-Ferbans, Larry, Maestre-Guerra, Ana, Villalba-Fuentes, Evelin, Barros-Barrios, Mayelis M. & Munoz-Montero, Jeison, 2023, Passalidae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia: synopsis, key, and new species description, ZooKeys 1179, pp. 243-297 : 243

17. Spasalus paulinae Amat-Garcia & Fonseca, 1998

Diagnosis.

15.75-16.30 mm total length. Body robust. Mediofrontal and laterofrontal fused, large. Central tubercle with apex not free. Eyes large. Antennal with five lamellae. Lacinia with apex unidentate. Mediobasal area of mentum protruding, without setae in the posterior border. Marginal groove widened, occupying 2/3 of the anterior margin of the pronotum. Anterior border of mentum almost straight. Prosternellum rhomboidal. Anterior ventral border of the profemur with conspicuous groove.

Comments. Known only from material type from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The differences between S. crenatus and S. paulinae are subtle, they may be synonymous.