A passandrid new to the Bahamas (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)

Authors

Michael C. Thomas, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FLFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

September 2003

Comments

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

Abstract

Catogenus darlingtoni Slipinski (1989) was described from two specimens, one each from Puerto Rico and Guana Island, British Virgin Islands. No additional specimens have been mentioned in the literature. This species and C. klapperichorum Burckhardt and Slipinski from Hispaniola comprise a group endemic to the Caribbean and differing from other members of the genus by having the clypeus modified (Fig. 1) and depressed below the general level of the rest of the head (Burckhardt and Slipinski 2003).