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A New Species Of Colyphus Spinola (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) From Veracruz, Mexico, Jacques Rifkind
A New Species Of Colyphus Spinola (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) From Veracruz, Mexico, Jacques Rifkind
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Colyphus lostuxtlas new species (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) is described from Veracruz, Mexico.
With the addition of the new species described herein, the genus Colyphus Spinola now comprises 27 species, distributed from Mexico to Panama (Ekis 1977; Rifkind 1997, 2014, 2020, 2023; Rifkind and Barr 2011). The species described herein is known only from a cloud forest reserve (part of La Reserva Biosfera Los Tuxtlas) on the lower slopes of Volcán San Martín in Veracruz, Mexico. Other Colyphus species with distributions in cloud forests include the Costa Rican species C. hansoni Rifkind, C. irazu Ekis, and C. ska Rifkind and Barr, …
Two New Species Of Guatemalan Colyphus Spinola (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), Jacques Rifkind
Two New Species Of Guatemalan Colyphus Spinola (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), Jacques Rifkind
Insecta Mundi
Colyphus zacki new species and Colyphus monzoni new species (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) are described from Guatemala.
The genus Colyphus Spinola was most recently revised by Ekis (1977), who recognized 16 species, distributed from Mexico to Panama. Since then, four new species have been described (Colyphus hansoni Rifkind, C. ska Rifkind and Barr, C. lamed Rifkind, and C. martinezi Rifkind) and four species (Enoclerus guatemalensis (Gorham), E. pictus (Gorham), E. rutilus (Gorham), and Thanasimus subviolaceus Gorham) have been transferred to the genus (Rifkind and Barr 2011; Rifkind 2014). With the two new species described herein, the total known Colyphus …
A New Species Of Cymatodera Gray (Coleoptera: Cleridae) From Honduras, Jacques Rifkind
A New Species Of Cymatodera Gray (Coleoptera: Cleridae) From Honduras, Jacques Rifkind
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Cymatodera batleth new species (Coleoptera: Cleridae) is described from Honduras. It appears to belong to a group of Central American congeners that share similar facies and coloration, deeply emarginate elytral apices and elaborately modified male pygidia.
Heretofore ten species of Cymatodera Gray have been recorded from Honduras: C. conflagrata (Klug), C. depauperata Gorham, C. guatemalensis Schenkling, C. prolixa (Klug), C. sallei Thomson, C. sinuosa Burke, C. rileyi Rifkind, C. crassa Burke and Sole, C. nigrofasciata Burke and Sole, and C. parva Burke which have distributions extending into neighboring Central American countries (Burke 2013; Burke et al. 2017). The known Honduran …