Ulata Saylor 1945

Ulata Saylor, 1945 Ulata Saylor, 1945: 441. Type species Ulata argentina Saylor, 1945 by original designation. Redescription. Length 4.5���8.0 mm. Elongate, widest just behind middle of elytra; dorsal surface, ventral surface of thorax and posterior ventrite reddish brown, remainder of abdomen dark brown; surfaces shiny with scattered short, white, and appressed setae. Head: labrum wide, broadly emarginate, evenly and shallowly reflexed anteriorly, completely fused to and slightly below plane of clypeus exposing anterior clypeal margin; labroclypeal suture distinct and terminating in small, marginal notches. Mentum longer than wide, not emarginate in front, with sides somewhat straight, gradually converging posteriorly. Antennae with 8 antennomeres, club with 3 short, thick lamellae. Pronotum: somewhat convex, slightly wider than long, widest medially. Elytra: somewhat flat with four rows (including sutural interval) of slightly raised, irregular, dark, and glabrous patches. Metathoracic wings fully developed. Abdomen: without lateral carinae on ventrites. Legs: protibia with three apical teeth on outer margin, basal tooth weak, spur present and barely reaching base of first tarsomere. Claws symmetrical and incised with a short, bisetose onychium in between. Metatibial apices with spurs set in notch, upper spur set below tarsal articulation and reaching about half the length of first tarsomere. Male genitalia: symmetrical parameres simple in form, not split or with strong sinuations, and subequal in length to phallobase. Composition. The only species, U. argentina Saylor, is known from Argentina and Chile.
Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T. & Evans, Arthur V., 2018, Taxonomic review of Athliini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae), a new tribe of scarab beetles endemic to South America, pp. 279-308 in Zootaxa 4471 (2) on pages 296-297, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1439674
{"references":["Saylor, L. W. (1945) Studies in the melolonthine scarab beetle genera of the American continents. No. IV. A new genus from Argentina. Revista de Entomologia, 16, 441 - 444."]}