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Issue: Vol. 2132 No. 1: 15 Jun. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-06-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2132.1.2
Page range: 40–52
Abstract views: 65
PDF downloaded: 6

A revision of the genus Lycomorphon (Coleoptera: Lycidae)

Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, USP, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Monte Alegre, 14040-901, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, Palacky University, CZ-77140 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Coleoptera Taxonomy Lycomorphon new species new subgenus Neotropical Region

Abstract

The Neotropical genus Lycomorphon Pic, 1922 is revised. Eleven species are classified in the genus, six of them are redescribed, five species (Lycomorphon brasiliense sp. n., L. amazonicum sp. n., L. bimaculatum sp. n. L. bolivianum sp. n., L. fulvohumeralis sp. n.) are proposed as new to science. Lycomorphon elongaticolle v. diversicolle Pic, 1926 is raised to species status, and Idiopteron irregularis is transferred to the genus Lycomorphon. The new subgenus Spinolycus sg. n. is proposed within Lycomorphon.

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