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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2009-06-12
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 26

A second species of Apterodina (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) from Ecuador

Center for Biological Control, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307 USA
Coleoptera Chrysomelidae Eumolpinae

Abstract

The flightless genus Apterodina Bechyné is known from four South American species: two in southeastern Brazil and one each in Colombia and Ecuador (Flowers 2004). This paper describes a second Ecuadorian Apterodina and gives the first habitat data for this genus. Specimens are deposited in the following institutions: FSCA, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, Florida, USA; MECN, Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales, Quito, Ecuador.

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    Flowers, R.W. (2004) New flightless Eumolpinae of the genera Apterodina Bechyné and Brachypterodina n. gen. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Neotropics. Zootaxa 549, 1–18.