Ptomophagus giaquintoi, Jeannel, 1936: 93

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 : 59

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scientific name	Ptomophagus giaquintoi
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Treatment

P. giaquintoi Jeannel, 1936: 93,

1949: 98 (assignment to group spelaeus); Peck, 1973a: 111 (type seen; assignment to group), 1973b: 101 (no new record); Perreau, 2013: 365 (holotype seen).

? Syntypes (several specimens, sex not given, in original description);

Holotype [in Peck, 1973a; sex not given] male [as seen in Perreau, 2013: 365, Fig. 2 (protarsus expanded)] in MNHN.

Type locality: Cueva de Sepacuite, near Panzos, Alta Verapaz Department, Guatemala.

Distribution: Guatemala: Alta Verapaz Department: known only from three caves in Alta Verapaz. Biology: Troglophile.

References

Jeannel, R. (1936) Monographie des Catopidae. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, New Series, 1, 1 - 433.

Jeannel, R. (1949) Etude systematique. In: Jeannel, R. & Henrot, H. (Eds.), Les Coleopteres cavemicoles de la region des Appalaches. Notes Biospeologiques. Vol. 4. Publications du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, nº 12, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, pp. 37 - 104.

Peck, S. B. (1973 a) A systematic revision and the evolutionary biology of the Ptomaphagus (Adelops) beetles of North America (Coleoptera: Catopinae), with emphasis on cave-inhabiting species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University, 145, 29 - 162.

Perreau, M. (2013) Les Ptomaphagus Hellwig du Guatemala (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae, Ptomaphagini). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, 118, 363 - 369.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Leiodidae
SubFamily	Catopocerinae
Tribe	Ptomaphagini
SubTribe	Ptomaphagina
Genus	Ptomophagus
SubGenus	Adelops