Eight new species of Ptenidiini and Discheramocephalini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) from Ecuador
Author
Darby, Michael
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-01-31
599
1
19
journal article
24119
10.5852/ejt.2020.599
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Genus
Discheramocephalus
Johnson 2007
Type
species
Discheramocephalus semisulcatus
, 2007
.
Remarks
Sixteen species of this distinctive genus have been described to date from
Madagascar
,
Peru
,
Solomon Islands
,
Indonesia
and Africa, and Johnson (2007) stated that he had also seen specimens from
Brazil
and
Sri Lanka
. This is the first record of the genus from
Ecuador
.