Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America)
Author
Peck, Stewart B.
Author
Gnaspini, Pedro
Author
Newton, Alfred F.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-02-18
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Genus
Paulipalpina
Gnaspini & Peck
Paulipalpina
Gnaspini & Peck, 1996: 434
.
Type
species:
Adelopsis claudicans
Szymczakowski
(orig. des.).
Key: to species in
Salgado, 2014a: 20
.
Distribution: Neotropical. Note: At least one unidentified (maybe undescribed) species based on a female misidentified as
Parapaulipalpina filicornis
[see Note under that species;
Gnaspini & Peck, 2019: 48
, 56 discuss the case but do not describe a species, which would receive the status of ‘species inquirenda’ because it would be based on a single female]; and maybe an additional undescribed species [see Note 1 under
P. claudicans
].
Biology: Scavenger in moist forests.