A new species of Cymatodera Gray (Coleoptera: Cleridae) from Honduras

Coleoptera
Cleridae
  • Jacques Rifkind

    California State Collection of Arthropods, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832 USA

Keywords: Checkered beetles, fauna, endemism, neotropical

Abstract

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

References

  • Burke AF. 2013. Six new species of Cymatodera from México and Central America and the retention of Cymatodera obliquefasciata as a valid name (Cleridae, Tillinae). ZooKeys 299: 49–75. 
  • Burke AF, Sole CL, Scholtz CH. 2019. Four new species of the genus Cymatodera (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae) from the Neotropics, with some taxonomic and biogeographic remarks. The Canadian Entomologist 151: 545–557. 
  • Burke AF, Sole CL, Toledo-Hernández VH, Scholtz CH. 2017. Five new species of Cymatodera Gray, 1832 (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae) from Mexico and Central America. Zootaxa 4350: 106–120. 
  • Rifkind J. 2015. New species of Cymatodera Gray (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae) from Mexico and Central America, with notes on others. Zootaxa 3946: 519–552. 

Publication

0978

Published

2023-03-03

How to cite

Rifkind J. 2023. A new species of Cymatodera Gray (Coleoptera: Cleridae) from Honduras. Insecta Mundi 0978: 1–4.
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