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Issue: Vol. 2821 No. 1: 15 Apr. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2821.1.5
Page range: 55–61
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 4

New species of Colyphus Spinola (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) from Central America, with taxonomic and distributional notes on some others

Research Associate, California State Collection of Arthropods, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832, U.S.A.
Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho. Address: Plant, Soil & Entomology, Agricultural Sciences Building, 6th & Rayburn, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, Russia
Coleoptera Clerid fauna Costa Rica Honduras Guatemala Mexico Colyphus Enoclerus

Abstract

Colyphus ska n. sp. is described from Costa Rica; Colyphus lamed n. sp. is described from Honduras. The following new combinations are proposed: Colyphus guatemalensis (Gorham), new combination, Colyphus pictus (Gorham), new com- bination, and Colyphus rutilus (Gorham), new combination.

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