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Issue: Vol. 2387 No. 1: 3 Mar. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-03-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2387.1.4
Page range: 51–56
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 5

Revision of the genus Carphontes Bates, with the proposal of a new genus, Paracleodoxus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae)

Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fellow of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fellow of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
Coleoptera Carphontes Paracleodoxus Neotropical new genus new species

Abstract

The genus Carphontes Bates, 1881 is redefined, and a new genus Paracleodoxus gen. nov. is described. Carphontes posticalis Bates, 1881 is redescribed. Three new species are described and illustrated: Carphontes paradoxus sp. nov. from Venezuela, Paracleodoxus cineraceus sp. nov. from Venezuela and Colombia, and Paracleodoxus simillimus sp. nov. from Venezuela.

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