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Issue: Vol. 5389 No. 2: 19 Dec. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-12-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5389.2.2
Page range: 173-192
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New species and records of Macratriinae LeConte, 1862 (Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Americas with five new descriptions

Department of Life Sciences; Natural History Museum; SW7 5BD London; United Kingdom; Institute of Life Sciences and Technology; Daugavpils University; Vienības iela 13; LV-5401 Daugavpils; Latvia; Institute of Biology; University of Latvia; O. Vācieša iela 4; LV-1004 Rīga; Latvia
Coleoptera Taxonomy Macratria Ecuador Guyana Panama Suriname

Abstract

Descriptions of the following five new species of Macratriinae LeConte, 1862 are presented based on the material mainly from the Natural History Museum London: Macratria bugle sp. nov. (Panama), M. conlei sp. nov. (Ecuador), M. florsavichi sp. nov. (Panama), M. guaymi sp. nov. (Panama) and M. tiriyo sp. nov. (Guyana / Suriname). New distribution records for the Central American Macratria obsoleta Champion, 1890 are also provided.

 

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