Passalus affinis (lat.) - a species of sugar beetles of the genus Passalus from the family Passalida ( Passalidae ). Caribbean Islands (Haiti Island). Large-sized beetles, which have a length of about 4 cm (from 42.5 to 48.6 mm), are brownish-black, shiny. The edges of the forehead are straight. One of the few species of the genus that describes the process of copulation, edeagus and larvae. The body is elongated, flattened. Elytra in deep longitudinal grooves [1] .
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| Passalus affinis Percheron, 1835 |
Notes
- ↑ Larry Jiménez-Ferbans, Pedro Reyes-Castillo & Jack C. Schuster. Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) of the Greater and Lesser Antilles (Eng.) // Zootaxa : Journal. - New Zealand: Magnolia Press, 2015 .-- Vol. 3956, no. 4 . - P. 491-512. - ISSN 1175-5334 .
Literature
- Boucher, S. Évolution et phylogénie des Coléoptères Passalidae (Scarabaeoidea) (French) // Annales de la Société entomologique de France (NS): International Journal of Entomology: Journal. - Société entomologique de France & Taylor & Francis, 2005. - Vol. 41, n o 3-4 . - P. 239-604. - ISSN 2168-6351 .