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<mods:namePart>Nestor-Arriola, Jorge Ismael</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Solis, Angel</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Gonzalez, Guillermo</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Gordon" authorityYear="1985" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Brachiacantha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Brachiacantha barberi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="barberi">Brachiacantha barberi</taxonomicName>
Gordon, 1985: 572. 
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Nestor-Arriola and 
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2019
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: 548.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Material examined.</paragraph>
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Material listed in 
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Nestor-Arriola and 
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Length 
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. Width 
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. Dorsally black with two to three red to orange spots; pronotum mostly black. Third and fourth ventrites bicuspid. Male genitalia asymmetrical, penis guide without apical hook.
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From the southeast of the 
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to 
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Discussion.</paragraph>
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This species is similar to 
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, but it can be distinguished by its smaller size and the fourth bicuspid ventrite of 
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