Three new species, taxonomic notes, and new geographical records of Neotropical Disteniidae (Coleoptera)

J. Botero; A. Santos-Silva

DOI:10.3956/2020-96.3.143

Corpus ID: 222210909

Three new species, taxonomic notes, and new geographical records of Neotropical Disteniidae (Coleoptera)

@article{Botero2020ThreeNS,
  title={Three new species, taxonomic notes, and new geographical records of Neotropical Disteniidae (Coleoptera)},
  author={J. Botero and A. Santos-Silva},
  journal={The Pan-Pacific Entomologist},
  year={2020},
  volume={96},
  pages={143 - 167}
}

J. Botero, A. Santos-Silva
Published 2020
Geography
The Pan-Pacific Entomologist

Abstract. Three new species from Ecuador are described: America spinosa and America tuberevexa, from Napo Province, and Elytrimitatrix (G.) franki, from Loja Province. America biplagiata (Villiers, 1958), a species known only from the holotype, is redescribed based on males and females. The unknown male of Paracometes solangeae Botero & Almeida, 2019 is described and illustrated by the first time. Distenia (D.) normae Botero & Almeida, 2019 is proposed as a junior synonym of America wappesi… Expand

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