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Issue: Vol. 2909 No. 1: 8 Jun. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-06-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2909.1.3
Page range: 27–37
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of Stenomorpha Solier (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae: Asidini) from Cuatrociénegas, Mexico with a key to the furcata species group

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, PO Box 876505, Tempe, AZ 85287-6505, U.S.A.
Department of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, MSC03 2020, Albuquerque, NM 87131–0001 USA
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, PO Box 876505, Tempe, AZ 85287-6505, U.S.A.
Coleoptera Darkling beetles Asidini Stenomorpha Mexico taxonomy

Abstract

A new species, Stenomorpha roosevelti Smith, Miller, and Wheeler, n. sp., is described from the Cuatrociénegas Protected Area in Coahuila, Mexico. Three related species are transferred into Stenomorpha, producing the following new combi- nations: Stenomorpha furcata (Champion), Stenomorpha wickhami (Horn), and Stenomorpha granicollis (Blaisdell). A new informal group, the furcata species group, comprised of these four species is recognized within Stenomorpha. Diagnoses of the group and its species are provided, along with distribution data and a key to the species.

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