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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 912" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 9 - 12. Brachiacantha sp. 9 Brachiacantha guatemalensis comb. nov., male 10 Brachiacantha papiliona sp. nov., female 11 Brachiacantha mimica sp. nov., female 12 Brachiacantha gorhami comb. nov., female." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1024.56927.figures9-12" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/520868" pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Figures 9</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Nestor-Arriola &amp; Toledo-Hernández &amp; Solís &amp; González &amp; Větrovec" authorityYear="2021" baseAuthorityName="Nestor-Arriola &amp; Toledo-Hernández &amp; Solís &amp; González &amp; Větrovec" baseAuthorityYear="2021" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Hyperaspis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hyperaspis guatemalensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="guatemalensis" status="comb. nov.">Hyperaspis guatemalensis</taxonomicName>
Gorham, 1894: 200, tab. XI, fig. 10.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Material examined.</paragraph>
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<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="3063616400" collectingDate="1948-05-01" collectionCode="T" collectorName="Palmat" country="Guatemala" location="Yepocapa" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1">
<collectingCountry name="Guatemala">Guatemala</collectingCountry>
<specimenCount type="male">1♂</specimenCount>
;
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;
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<collectingDate value="1948-05-01">01 May 1948</collectingDate>
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; H.
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.
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leg. (USNMNH)
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Length
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, width 2.4 mm; body rounded, convex. Dorsal color black, pronotum with lateral angles and anterior border yellow, each elytron with an irregular yellow macula covering from the humeral angle to the posterior border (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 912" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 9 - 12. Brachiacantha sp. 9 Brachiacantha guatemalensis comb. nov., male 10 Brachiacantha papiliona sp. nov., female 11 Brachiacantha mimica sp. nov., female 12 Brachiacantha gorhami comb. nov., female." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1024.56927.figures9-12" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/520868" pageId="0" pageNumber="157">9</figureCitation>
). Ventral surface with head, prosternum and metaventrite black; abdomen yellow except the center of ventrites I-III black; legs, mouthparts, and antennae yellow. Carinae on prosternal process parallel, convergent near the anterior margin of prosternum, not joined. Protibia not flanged, basal tooth small. Ventrites I-IV truncate at apex; ventrites
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and
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emarginated and depressed. Male abdomen with several ventrites truncate at center. Genitalia with penis guide as long as parameres, symmetrical, sides slightly convergent, apex truncate (Fig.
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); parameres parallel sided, apex rounded, setae rising from the apex border long and curved; penis curved in basal
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, apex with subtriangular alae, basal capsule not crested, inner arm of basal capsule long and slender (Figs
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,
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Figures 9-12.</emphasis>
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sp.
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comb. nov., male
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sp. nov., female
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="157">11</emphasis>
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sp. nov., female
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="157">12</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Nestor-Arriola &amp; Toledo-Hernández &amp; Solís &amp; González &amp; Větrovec" authorityYear="2021" baseAuthorityName="Nestor-Arriola &amp; Toledo-Hernández &amp; Solís &amp; González &amp; Větrovec" baseAuthorityYear="2021" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Brachiacantha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Brachiacantha gorhami" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="157" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gorhami">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Brachiacantha gorhami</emphasis>
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comb. nov., female.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Female. Unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Variation.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Unknown.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="157">
<collectingCountry name="Guatemala">Guatemala</collectingCountry>
.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="157">
This species is easily identifiable by the dorsal black coloration with elytral and pronotal margins yellow. The specimen examined was identified following the description and illustrations of
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as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Hyperaspis guatemalensis</emphasis>
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. Nevertheless, this species has all the diagnostic characters of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Brachiacantha</emphasis>
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, including the tibial tooth, lack of large abdominal pores and eye emarginated by the eye canthus; in addition, there are several species of
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with coloration similar to
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Casey and
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Gordon, but the individual examined presents all the external characteristics, size and distribution of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="157">H. guatemalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Therefore, a new combination is proposed. Several species described by Gorham have been reassigned into other genera due taxonomic revisions (
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); about the genus
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Hyperaspis</emphasis>
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there are several examples:
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="157">H. pauperula</emphasis>
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was reassigned to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="157">Calloeneis</emphasis>
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,
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is considered now as a synonym of
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(Mulsant) and
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was reassigned to
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(
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;
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;
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). According the present evidence
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should be reassigned to
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, but an examination of the
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material is needed to ensure the taxonomic identity with the material examined here.
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