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Issue: Vol. 4072 No. 5: 4 Feb. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-02-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.5.8
Page range: 593–595
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Paracometes Villiers, 1958 from Panama (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Disteniinae)

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Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Coleoptera Cerambycidae Disteniinae

Abstract

Villiers (1958) described Paracometes (Cerambycidae: Disteniinae) for 11 species from Central and South America, and designated Cometes acutipennis Buquet, 1851 as its type species. Santos-Silva and Martins (2004) synonymized Paracometes with Cometes Lepeletier and Audinet-Serville, 1828. Santos-Silva and Tavakilian (2009a) reinstated Paracometes as a distinct genus and provided a new concept for the genus. According to Santos-Silva and Tavakilian (2009b), Paracometes includes six species distributed in Central and South America. The 7th species for this genus is now described.

 

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