A new species of Cymatodera Gray (Coleoptera: Cleridae) from the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico

Rifkind, Jacques

doi:10.64338/im.1200.nejl6

A new species of Cymatodera Gray (Coleoptera: Cleridae) from the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico

Coleoptera Cleridae

Jacques Rifkind
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, 1911SW 34th Street, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64338/im.1200.nejl6
ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DFC44C24-C945-4618-8D97-D5F9D5099F5F
Keywords: Checkered beetles, US Southwest, fauna

Abstract

Cymatodera orwelli new species (Coleoptera: Cleridae) is described from Arizona and New Mexico, USA and Sinaloa, Mexico. It appears to belong to a group of mostly Mexican congeners that are moderately elongate, have elongate, sexually dimorphic terminal antennomeres, and simple pygidia.