Diagnosis (male and female).

Jameson

Mary Liz

Drumont

Alain

Aroid scarabs in the genus Peltonotus Burmeister (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae): key to species and new distributional data

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Peltonotus

similis

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Arrow, 1931

Figs 33, 53, 69, 86

Diagnosis (male and female).

Length 18.0–20.9 mm, color overall dark brown or black, elytra dark brown or black with or without iridescent bloom, head with some multisetigerous punctures, labrum bi-emarginate, mentum rounded in apical half (Fig. 33), labial palpomere 2 slightly enlarged and not obviously dorsoventrally flattened (Fig. 33), mala without lamellate setal brush, maxillary stipes without setae curled at apices, protarsomere 5 of male with internomedial protuberance (Fig. 53), male protibia bidentate, form of parameres (Fig. 69), female epipleuron incised and with rounded emargination (Fig. 86).

Distribution.

Malaysia, Borneo Island (Sabah).

Figures 25–35.

Mentum, ventral view, showing form of apical half of mentum and form of labial palpomere 2 (in comparison to palpomere 1). 25 Peltonotus deltamentum 26 Peltonotus gracilipodus 27 Peltonotus kyojinus 28 Peltonotus malayensis 29 Peltonotus podocrassus 30 Peltonotus nasutus 31 Peltonotus nethis 32 Peltonotus pruinosus 33 Peltonotus similis 34 Peltonotus sisyrus 35 Peltonotus talangensis.

Figures 45–54.

Male prolegs, dorsal view (45–49), male protarsomeres, dorsal view (50–53), and male protarsomere 5, ventral view (54), of Peltonotus. 45 Peltonotus animus (male protibia tridentate with basal tooth obsolete) 46 Peltonotus cybele (male protibia tridentate with basal tooth well developed) 47 Peltonotus malayensis (male protibia bidentate) 48 Peltonotus talangensis (male protibia tridentate with basal tooth well developed) 49 Peltonotus rubripennis (male protibia tridentate with basal tooth weakly developed) 50 Peltonotus adelphosimilis (arrow showing protarsomere 5 of male with internoapical protuberance) 51 Peltonotus favonius (male protibia bidentate) 52 Peltonotus nasutus (male protibial claw greatly enlarged) 53 Peltonotus similis (arrow showing protarsomere 5 of male with internomedial protuberance) 54 Peltonotus deltamentum (male proclaw strongly arcuate in ventral view).

Figures 67–72.

Male parameres (with or without phallobase), dorsal and lateral views, in Peltonotus. Male parameres are highly asymmetrical, and we illustrate the lateral view that best assists in identification. 67 Peltonotus rubripennis 68 Peltonotus silvanus 69 Peltonotus similis 70 Peltonotus sisyrus 71 Peltonotus talangensis 72 Peltonotus vittatus.

Figures 73–87.

Female elytral epipleuron (gray, ventral view) and position relative to metacoxa in Peltonotus. 73 Peltonotus brunnipennis 74 Peltonotus cybele 75 Peltonotus favonius 76 Peltonotus fujiokai 77 Peltonotus gracilipodus, Peltonotus podocrassus and Peltonotus silvanus 78 Peltonotus kyojinus 79 Peltonotus malayensis 80 Peltonotus morio 81 Peltonotus mushiyaus 82 Peltonotus nasutus 83 Peltonotus nethis 84 Peltonotus pruinosus 85 Peltonotus rubripennis 86 Peltonotus similis 87 Peltonotus sisyrus