New Neotropical Species of Desmopachria (Desmopachria s. str.) Babington (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

Authors

• Frank N. Young, Biology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

March 1990

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi Vol. 4, No. 1-4, March-December 1990. Copyright © 1990 Young.
Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/

Abstract

New species of Desmopachria (s. str.) are described and male external genitalia figured to aid in identification. The new taxa are: D. majusculus (Guatemala); D. zelota (Brasil); D. nitidoides (Paraguay); D. balfour-brownei (Brasil); D. striga (Bolivia, Brasil); D. subfasciata (Bolivia); D. geijskesi (Surinam); and D. margarita from Pearl Islands, Panama (nomen nova) for D. glabricula Sharp, 1887, nec D. glabricula Sharp, 1882 from Mexico. Related species which may be confused with the newly described taxa are diagnosed and genitalia figured.