Popilius tetraphyllus Eschscholtz 1929
Creators: name: Jiménez-Ferbans, Larry
name: Reyes-Castillo, Pedro
name: Schuster, Jack C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Passallidae
Popilius
Popilius tetraphyllus

description: Popilius tetraphyllus (Eschscholtz, 1929)
(Fig. 20)
Type locality. Guyana.
Diagnosis. 17.0–21.0 mm total length. Anterior border of labrum straight. Clypeus exposed, visible dorsally, with anterior angles well developed. Frontal-clypeal suture present. Frontal fossae punctate and pubescent. Internal tubercles large. Central tubercle with apex not free; latero-posterior tubercles marked, joined by a ridge to central tubercle. Antennal club with three or four lamellae. Apex of lacinia bidentate. Mentum with medial base protruding and glabrous. Prosternal process rhomboidal, acute. Mesosternum glabrous, with weak scars. Antero-lateral metasternum pubescent, lateral groove glabrous, disc delimited by punctures basally. Humeri and epipleura glabrous.
Distribution. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela (Gillogly 2005).
Comments. We did not review material from the Antilles of this species; the diagnosis and measurements are based on Gillogly (2005) and material from Brazil and Guyana deposited in the IEXA collection.
Passalidae from Antilles Reference
Passalus (Passalus) abortivus ** Kaup (1871): Antilles
Passalus (Passalus) bucki ** Trinidad
Passalus (Passalus) coarctatus Trinidad
Passalus (Passalus) interruptus ** Arrow (1907) Trinidad
Schuster (1978): Trinidad
Passalus (Passalus) interstitialis Kaup (1871): Cuba
Arrow (1907): Trinidad, Grenada, Cuba, Jamaica Passalus (Pertinax) affinis * Percheron (1835): Dominican Republic Arrow (1907): Santo Domingo, Haiti Reyes-Castillo et al. (1995): Dominican Republic, Haiti Passalus (Pertinax) antillarum * Arrow (1907): Grenada
Hincks & Dibb (1935)
Passalus (Pertinax) dominicanus * van Doesburg (1953): Dominican Republic Reyes-Castillo et al. (1995) Dominican Republic Passalus (Pertinax) latifrons ** Schuster (1992): Tobago
Passalus (Pertinax) pertyi * Kaup (1869): Cuba
García et al. (2009): Holguín, Cuba. Passalus (Pertinax) doesburgi * DominicanRepublic
Paxillus jamaicensis * Hincks (1950): Jamaica
Paxillus pentaphyllus * Palisot de Beauvois (1805): Dominican Republic Reyes-Castillo et al. (1995): Dominican Republic, Haiti
Spasalus crenatus Arrow (1907): Dominica, Saint Lucia, Nevis (as Passalus puncticollis
Lepeletier & Serville)
Gravely (1918): Guadeloupe
Chalumeau (1978) Saint Lucia (as P. puncticollis) Cartwright & Chalumeau (1978): Dominica (as P. puncticollis) Galindo-Cardona et al. (2007) Puerto Rico Popilius tetraphyllus ** Gillogly (2005): Trinidad
Verres furcilabris ** Arrow (1907): Trinidad
Marshall (2000): Tobago, Trinidad Veturius sinuosus ** Hunt (1982): Trinidad (as Ve tur ius transversus)
description: Published as part of Jiménez-Ferbans, Larry, Reyes-Castillo, Pedro & Schuster, Jack C., 2015, Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, pp. 491-512 in Zootaxa 3956 (4) on pages 506-507, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/236658