Eleodes (Promus) madrensis Johnston, 2015

Johnston, M. Andrew, Fleming, David, Franz, Nico M. & Smith, Aaron D., 2015, Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: Keys and Species Accounts, The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69, pp. 27-54 : 48

Eleodes (Promus) madrensis Johnston, 2015

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Diagnosis. Body elongate-ovate. Pronotum subquadrate, moderately arcuate laterally, narrowing in posterior half, widest at or just anterior to middle, anterior angles produced, rounded or moderately acute, usually directed slightly anterolaterally. Prosternum with relatively flat process, apressed to body, projected beyond procoxae. Profemora spined in males, sinuate in females. Males with protarsomeres I–II with pads of tomentose setae interrupting plantar surface. Elytra faintly punctate-striate.

Distribution. Yavapai, Gila, Maricopa, Pima, Santa Cruz, and Cochise Counties, Arizona. New Mexico; Sonora, Mexico.

Remarks. Specimens in natural history collections are often mixed with E. subnitens or determined as Eleodes knullorum Triplehorn , the latter which is otherwise unknown from Arizona.

Figures

Fig. 11. Eleodes species, dorsal habitus. A) E. madrensis, female, B) E. hepburni, female, C) E. delicatus, female, D) E. wheeleri, female. Scale bars = 1 cm.