Description of a new species of Platycoelia Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini) from Bolivia

Abstract

The genus Platycoelia Dejean was recently revised (Smith 2003) but a new species was discovered afterward in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. With the addition of this new species, the genus Platycoelia now contains 63 species. Platycoelia is distributed from central Mexico to northern Argentina with most species occurring in middle and high elevational regions of the Andes. The purpose of this paper is to describe the new species, amend a couplet in the previously published key to Platycoelia to incorporate this new species, and to make additional comments and corrections to my 2003 revision.