A new species of Acmaeodera (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Big Bend National Park, Texas, with synonymy for other species occurring in the United States

Authors

Richard L. Westcott, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Salem, Oregon
William F. Barr, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

March 1998

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi Vol. 12, Nos. 1 & 2, March-June, 1998. Copyright 1998 © by Westcott and Barr.

Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/.

Abstract

Acmaeodera tiquilia Westcott and Barr, new species, from Big Bend National Park, Texas is described, figured, and discussed in considerable detail, particularly in relation to the similar and partially sympatric A. recticollis Fall. A neotype is designated for A. quatuordecimspilota Obenberger and that species is synonymized with A. ornata (Fabricius). Additionally, A. gibbula gila Knull is synonymized with A. gibbula LeConte; A. nautica Van Dyke is synonymized with A. simulata Van Dyke.