Revisión del grupo de especies “pruinosa” de <em>Phyllophaga (Phytalus)</em> (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Melolonthinae)

Authors

  • Miguel Angel Morón Ríos Instituto de Ecología, A.C.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/dugesiana.v25i1.6999

Keywords:

Melolontinos, taxonomía, nuevos registros, México, Centroamérica.

Abstract

Se actualiza el grupo “pruinosa” formado por seis especies mexicanas y centroamericanas: P. pruinosa (Blanchard 1851) de Campeche, Chiapas, Hidalgo, Puebla, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas y Veracruz, México; Rio San Juan, Nicaragua;  Alajuela, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limón y San José, Costa Rica; P. tegulicolis Saylor 1934 de Chiapas, México; Santa Rosa, Guatemala; Morazán y Tegucigalpa, Honduras; P. tegenera Saylor 1935 de Carazo, Chinandega, Granada, Jinotega, Masaya y Rivas, Nicaragua; Guanacaste y Puntarenas, Costa Rica; P. hoogstraali Saylor 1943 de Guerrero, Michoacán, Morelos y Puebla, México; P. tlilloa n. sp. de Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, estado de México, Morelos, Nayarit, Puebla y Sinaloa, México; y P. yautepecana n. sp. de Oaxaca, México. Se incluyen la diagnosis del grupo, las redescripciones de cuatro especies y las descripciones de dos especies nuevas, con ilustraciones de las estructuras diagnósticas, así como una clave para separar las especies del grupo.

Author Biography

Miguel Angel Morón Ríos, Instituto de Ecología, A.C.

Investigador Titular, Red de Biodiversidad y Sistematica

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2018-01-01

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Vol. 25 No. 1 (2018)

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