Ptomaphagus altus, Peck, 1973 a: 133

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 : 57

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3797355
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scientific name	Ptomaphagus altus
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Treatment

P. altus Peck, 1973a: 133, 1977: 193 View in CoL .

Holotype female in MCZC (n° 31962).

Type locality: 5 km W San Cristobal de las Casas, 8000’, Chiapas State, Mexico.

Distribution: Mexico: Chiapas, México, Michoacan, and Morelos States. Biology: Forest inhabitant with somewhat reduced eyes.

Note: Genus misspelled “ Ptomophagus [sic]” in Zaragoza-Caballero et al. (2019: 31) when listing this species for Morelos State, Mexico.

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.

Peck, S. B. (1977) The subterranean and epigean Catopinae of Mexico (Coleoptera: Leiodidae). Bulletin of the Association for Mexican Cave Studies, 6, 185 - 213.

Zaragoza-Caballero, S., Rodriguez-Miron, G. M., Veja-Badillo, V., Gonzalez-Ramirez, M., Zurita-Garcia, M. L., Dominguez- Leon, D. E., Lopez-Perez, S., Gutierrez-Carranza, I. G., Cifuentes-Ruiz, P., Perez-Hernandez, C. X., Ramirez Del Valle, E. & Gutierrez, N. (2019) A checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) from Morelos, Mexico. Zootaxa, 4580 (1), 1 - 122. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4580.1.1

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Taxonomy

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