Passalus (Pertinax) gaboi Jimenez-Ferbans & Reyes-Castillo, 2022

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

8. Passalus (Pertinax) gaboi Jimenez-Ferbans & Reyes-Castillo, 2022

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Diagnosis.

31.6-34.2 mm total length. Body robust. Anterior border of the frons with small middle indentation, without secondary mediofrontal tubercles. Mediofrontal and laterofrontal fused, midsize. Central tubercle with apex not free. Lateroposterior tubercles slightly distinct and rounded. Eyes reduced, with canthus covering 1/2 of the eye in lateral view. Antennal club tri-lamellate, with lamellae long. Lacinia with apex bidentate. Mediobasal area of mentum protruding and heavily punctate and pubescent. Marginal groove wide, occupying 3/4 of the anterior margin of the pronotum. Prosternellum rhomboidal, truncate. Mesosternum without mesosternal scars, indicated only by an opaque area, impunctate and glabrous. Metasternum pubescent anterolaterally and in lateral groove; disc smooth and delimited by numerous punctations medially and posteriorly. Humeri and epipleura glabrous. Last abdominal sternite with complete marginal groove. Anterior ventral border of the profemur with thin groove. Mesotibiae with small spines on the outer margin. Metatibiae unarmed.

Comments.

Passalus gaboi had been the last species described from the Colombian Caribbean. It seems to be endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

Figures

Figure 11. Passalus (Pertinax) gaboi Jimenez-Ferbans & Reyes-Castillo, 2022 A head and pronotum in dorsal view B habitus dorsal C habitus ventral D habitus lateral. Scale bars: 2.0 mm (A); 3.0 mm (B, C, D).