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Issue: Vol. 1437 No. 1: 2 Apr. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-04-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1437.1.5
Page range: 61–67
Abstract views: 77
PDF downloaded: 4

A new species of Photinus (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Photinini) from Jalisco, Mexico, with comments on intraspecific aedeagal variability and a key to the species of the subgenus Paraphotinus

Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado postal 70-153, C.P. 04510, México, D. F. México.
Coleoptera Lampyridae Photinini new species México aedeagus parameres intraspecific variability

Abstract

A new species of Photinus, P. anisodrilus sp. nov., is described from material collected from a tropical deciduous forest in San Buenaventura, Jalisco, Mexico. Males of this species are characterized by having considerable intraspecific variation in the aedeagal parameres. Photinus anisodrilus appears to be closely related to P. cookii Green, P. curtatus Green, P. inmaculatus Green, and P. marginellus LeConte because they share the presence of ventral branches in their parameres. Therefore, these species are grouped in the subgenus Paraphotinus Zaragoza-Caballero (1995a). A key for the Mexican species of Paraphotinus is provided.

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