Abstract
Mexico has an extremely diverse clerid beetle fauna, comprising within its borders representatives of at least 43 of the approximately 62 genera recorded from North and Middle America. Dozens of new species in several genera (particularly in Cymatodera Gray and Phyllobaenus Dejean) await description. In addition, collections possess many Mexican clerids that fall outside our conception of the morphological limits of the known genera. I describe a monotypic genus below, based on a new species from the Sierra de Juárez of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, an area known for endemism in both invertebrates and vertebrates.
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