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Three.
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<emphasis id="B9286560C815FFC38284E930FEB5F27F" bold="true" box="[199,315,331,357]" pageId="6" pageNumber="73">Remarks.</emphasis>
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erected this genus to accommodate species with clearly pubescent elytra, with the third antennomere as long as the fourth, and with bifid pro- and mesotarsal claws (metatarsal claws simple). The latter character was amended in
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, with the description of the second species in the genus,
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, in which all tarsal claws are bifid. Based on our examination of both species, the following additional diagnostic characters of the genus are proposed: pronotum at least twice as wide as long; anterior corners of pronotum not overly thickened (like in
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) and directed anterolaterally; posterior corners of pronotum slightly directed upwards in lateral view; sides of pronotum explanate. Currently, only one other genus with clearly pubescent elytra is known in
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: the genus
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from the West Indies (see also
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, but the species could not be determined since only a few photographs of the specimen were available for study. These photographs did however show some morphological differences from
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<emphasis id="B9286560C815FFC387CBEAA3FF53F00F" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="73">P. yepezi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, like the lack of a yellow sutural band, less elongate antennal calli and more finely punctate vertex. It is highly likely that this genus also occurs in
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and
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.
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