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Marcuzzi, G.: New taxa of Neotropical Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera)

shining, in middle a little arisen, with a very characteristic longitudinal incision. Intercoxal process of I urosternum very broad, oval, practically smooth, furnished with very fine and scarce punctures as last sterna, II and III (apparent) urosterna characterized by small lateral furrows oriented inwardly (i.e. obliquous). Pygidium scarcely punctate. Legs short (more than in A. dilatata), tarsi (Figs 15-17) furnished on undersurface with a dense yellow-reddish pubescence. This indicates a corticicolous habit of the species.

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F e m u r s thickened and without teeth, ti

x and tU dilated, I with a characteristic outer armature (çf), II with characteristic spinule. ti

z normal, at apex laterally furnished with a few spinulae.

—Length 9 mm. (1 çf). Locus classicus Bolivia, Guayaramerin (Beni), Soil zool. Exped., 23 XI 1966, lamping, holotype çf. Genus new for Bolivia which with Peru should represent the westernmost part of the distribution of the genus, a typical tropical one, present in Brazil with four species, reaching as far north as Guadeloupe and Mexico. Acknowledgments

—The author is very much indebted to Dr. ZOLTÁN KASZAB, Director of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, for making available to him all the unidentified tenebrionids coming from the Caribbean area and northern South America for identification and study; to Mr. ORLANDO GARRIDO (La Habana, Cuba) who sent him all the unidentified tenebrionids belonging to his private collection, and to Dr. J. T. DOYEN of the Division of Entomology of the University of California, Berkeley, who sent on loan some specimens of Triorophus for comparison. Mr. RENZO MAZZARO, technician in the Department in which the research has been carried out, has drawn all figures by means of a "camera lucida" and then inked all figures. The author is much indebted to him. References CASEY, T. L. (1907): A revision of the American components of the Tenebrionid subfamily Tentyriinae.—Proc. Wash. Acad. Sei. 9: 275-522. MARCUZZI, G. (1984): A catalogue of Tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera : Heteromera) of the West Indies.—Folia ent. hung. 45 (1): 69-108. Author's address: DR. GIORGIO MARCUZZI Department of Biology The University of Padova Via Loredan

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