Four new species of Phrynidius Lacordaire (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) from Mexico with an identification key for the genus

By

Gutiérrez, Nayeli
Toledo-Hernández, Víctor Hugo
Noguera, Felipe A. (Felipe Arturo)

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1000

Pages

45--57

Subjects

Biodiversity , Central America , longhorn beetles , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1000.56757

 

Abstract

Since the description of its eight species, the Mesoamerican genus Phrynidius Lacordaire (Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Apomecynini) has not been comprehensively studied, with only a few distributional records published in recent years. In this work, four new species of Phrynidius are described from Chiapas, Mexico: P. cristinaesp. nov. from the municipality of Escuintla, P. diminutussp. nov. from San Cristobal, Phrynidius jonesisp. nov. from Trinitaria, and P. tuberculatussp. nov. from Jaltenango. An updated taxonomic key and illustrations of the new species are also provided.