Stenotarsus globosus Guérin­Méneville (1857:270)

Roubik, David W. & Skelley, Paul E., 2001, Stenotarsus Subtilis Arrow, The Aggregating Fungus Beetle Of Barro Colorado Island Nature Monument, Panama (Coleoptera: Endomychidae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 55 (3), pp. 249-263 : 255

Stenotarsus globosus Guérin­Méneville (1857:270)

Diagnosis. Length 5.5–6.1 mm; width 3.5–4.1 mm. Body oval, usually black, with only the elytral margins and suture red, but some specimens mostly red; pronotal setae purple­black; male metafemur with a basal spine, metatibia narrow, with internal row of tubercles ( Fig. 11 ).

Remarks. Based on various comments and discrepancies between localities cited in Gorham (1890), Arrow (1920), Blackwelder (1945), and Strohecker (1953), there is confusion as to the identity of specimens from southern Central America. Blackwelder (1945) states this taxon is in Panama, thus it is included here. Specimens studied were from Mexico and Central America (FSCA).

Figures

Figs. 8–18. Stenotarsus spp.: 8–10) Dorsal habitus: 8) Stenotarsus cuprivestis; 9) S. panamanus; 10) S. subtilis. 11–14) Ventral view of male: 11) S. globosus; 12) S. obtusus; 13) S. ovalis; 14) S. subtilis. 15–18) Aedeagus, ventral and lateral views: 15) S. panamanus; 16) S. obtusus; 17) S. ovalis; 18) S. subtilis. Scale line = 1 mm.