Anisotoma mexicana, (Champion, 1913: 64)

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, 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), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 71

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4476169

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scientific name

Anisotoma mexicana
status

 

A. mexicana ( Champion, 1913: 64) View in CoL

( Leiodes View in CoL , as Liodes ); Hatch, 1929b: 57 comb. (not stated as taxonomic change); Wheeler, 1979a: 303 (holotype seen).

Holotype female [seemingly a single specimen in original description, assumed as holotype] in BMNH [in Wheeler, 1979a; introduction of original description states depository as USNM and occasional cotypes in BMNH].

Type locality: Omilteme [in Wheeler, 1979a: Settlement 16 km W-SW Chilpancingo, 17º30’ N 99º40’ W], 8,000 ft., Guerrero State, Mexico.

Distribution: Mexico: Guerrero State: known only from type locality.

Champion, G. C. (1913) Notes on various Central American Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1913, 58 - 169, pls. 3 - 4. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1913. tb 02781. x

Hatch, M. H. (1929 b) Liodidae, Clambidae. In: Schenkling, S. (Ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 105. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1 - 100.

Wheeler, Q. D. (1979 a) Slime mold beetles of the genus Anisotoma (Leiodidae): classification and evolution. Systematic Entomology, 4, 251 - 309. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.1979. tb 00642. x

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Leiodidae

SubFamily

Coloninae

Genus

Anisotoma