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Issue: Vol. 79 No. 2: 13 Feb. 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-02-13
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2026.79.2.2
Page range: 59-66
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Psyllobora Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from French Guiana with description of two new species

Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19030, 81581–980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil and Instituto Nacional de Coleoptera (INCol), Brazil
Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19030, 81581–980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil and Instituto Nacional de Coleoptera (INCol), Brazil
Sociedad Chilena de Entomología, Santiago, Chile
Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19030, 81581–980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil and Instituto Nacional de Coleoptera (INCol), Brazil
Coccinellini Coccinelloidea description mycophagy taxonomy

Abstract

Psyllobora Chevrolat is a New World genus of mycophagous coccinellids with over 80 species. Only four species have been recorded in French Guiana (P. bowringii Crotch; P. confluens Fabricius; P. marshalli Crotch; and P. intricata Mulsant). This study increases this number to eleven species: the four previously known; five new records for the country (P. balinti Almeida; P. consistoides Mader; P. divisa (Fabricius); P. lutescens Crotch; and P. sosia Almeida & Marinoni) and two new species (P. almeidae Basílio & Churata, sp. nov. and P. seag Basílio & Churata, sp. nov.).

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