Pedaridium brasiliense Ferreira & Galileo:

HOLOTYPE: Ψ, pinned, in MZSP. Labels: [1. white label] Coleção M. Alvarenga / [2. white label] Encruzilhada 980 m Bahia, Brasil, XI. 1972 M. Alvarenga / [3. red label] HOLOTYPUS / [4. white label] Pedaridium brasiliensis F. & G., M.M.Ferreira det. 1991.

Diagnosis: 3.9– 5.3 mm. Distinguished by the small eyes (Fig. 5) combined with equilateral clypeal teeth and impunctate elytral striae. This species is adequately described by Ferreira & Galileo (1993).

Remarks: The species described by Ferreira & Galileo (1993) as P. bidens was misidentified and is actually P. cryptops Arrow, 1913 (Génier & Vaz-de-Mello 2002).