Diagnosis (female only).

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

tigerus

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Jameson & Wada, 2009

Figs 17, 44, 90

Diagnosis (female only).

Length ~13.7 mm, overall color black or castaneous, elytra reddish-brown with weak iridescent bloom (Fig. 17), head with some punctures multisetigerous, labrum bi-emarginate, labial palpomere 2 enlarged and dorsoventrally flattened, mala with well developed lamellate setal brush (Fig. 44), maxillary stipes without setae curled at apices (Fig. 44), female epipleuron incised with a round or oval emargination (Fig. 90).

Distribution.

Thailand.

Remarks.

We hypothesize that males of this species will possess reddish-brown elytra, similar to the coloration of the female.

Figures 13–19.

Peltonotus species dorsal habitus. 13 Peltonotus mushiyaus, female 14–15 Peltonotus nasutus, male and female (respectively) 16 Peltonotus talangensis, male 17 Peltonotus tigerus, female 18–19 Peltonotus vittatus, male and female (respectively).

Figures 36–44.

Maxilla, ventral view, showing mala with or without lamellate setal brush (setae thick and strongly flattened), and showing stipes with or without setae curly at apices. 36 Peltonotus animus 37 Peltonotus cybele 38 Peltonotus deltamentum 39 Peltonotus favonius 40 Peltonotus karubei 41 Peltonotus malayensis 42 Peltonotus mushiyaus 43 Peltonotus talangensis 44 Peltonotus tigerus. Arrows indicate lamellate setal brush.

Figures 88–91.

Female elytral epipleuron (gray, ventral view) and position relative to metacoxa in Peltonotus. 88 Peltonotus suehirogarus 89 Peltonotus talangensis 90 Peltonotus tigerus 91 Peltonotus vittatus.