Center for Systematic Entomology

A new species of Colyphus Spinola (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) from Veracruz, Mexico

ColeopteraCleridaeClerinae

  • Jacques Rifkind

    Research Associate, California State Collection of Arthropods, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832 U.S.A

ZooBank
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9B1E3462-9612-4140-8B23-3A3F78B4366A
Keywords
Checkered beetles, Veracruz, cloud forest, endemism

Abstract

Colyphus lostuxtlas new species (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) is described from Veracruz, Mexico.

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