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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-12-02
Page range: 233–236
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Psephenops panamaensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea: Psephenidae) from Panama

Instituto de Ecología, A. C., Carretera antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, 91070 Xalapa, Veracruz, MEXICO.
Instituto de Ecología, A. C., Carretera antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, 91070 Xalapa, Veracruz, MEXICO.
Coleoptera Byrrhoidea Psephenidae

Abstract

To date, the genus Psephenops Grouvelle (= Xexanchorinus) is comprised of ten described species with an apparent fragmentary distribution: P. smithi Grouvelle (Antillean, with two subspecies (Bameul 2001)); P. grouvellei Champion (Guatemala); P. haitianus Darlington (Haiti); P. maculicollis Darlington (Costa Rica and Colombia); P. argentinensis Delève (Argentina); P. prestonae Spangler (Costa Rica); P. lupita Arce-Pérez and P. mexicanus Arce-Pérez and Novelo-Gutiérrez (Mexico); P. spiniparameri and P. shepardi Arce-Pérez and Novelo-Gutiérrez (Belize) (Arce-Pérez & Novelo-Gutiérrez 2013). We now extend the number of species known to eleven with the description of a new species from Panama, and the first record of the subfamily Psepheninae for this Central American country (Arce-Pérez & Shepard 2001).