taxonID	type	description	language	source
03317EF9CA2E5F8C8A5500195E3FEBBA.taxon	description	Fig. 1 A – C	en	Bento, Matheus, Zeballos, Leandro, Rafael, José Albertino (2025): Reclassification of four South American species of Laemophloeus Dejean, 1835 into Charaphloeus Casey, 1916 (Coleoptera, Laemophloeidae). Contributions to Entomology 75 (2): 289-297, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e160042
03317EF9CA2E5F8C8A5500195E3FEBBA.taxon	distribution	Distribution. BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Friburgo (Grouvelle 1876).	en	Bento, Matheus, Zeballos, Leandro, Rafael, José Albertino (2025): Reclassification of four South American species of Laemophloeus Dejean, 1835 into Charaphloeus Casey, 1916 (Coleoptera, Laemophloeidae). Contributions to Entomology 75 (2): 289-297, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e160042
21F42E3F77985A95B5E84EB6ADF8A646.taxon	description	Fig. 1 D – F	en	Bento, Matheus, Zeballos, Leandro, Rafael, José Albertino (2025): Reclassification of four South American species of Laemophloeus Dejean, 1835 into Charaphloeus Casey, 1916 (Coleoptera, Laemophloeidae). Contributions to Entomology 75 (2): 289-297, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e160042
21F42E3F77985A95B5E84EB6ADF8A646.taxon	distribution	Distribution. BRAZIL. Bahia: Condeúba (formerly known as Santo Antônio da Barra).	en	Bento, Matheus, Zeballos, Leandro, Rafael, José Albertino (2025): Reclassification of four South American species of Laemophloeus Dejean, 1835 into Charaphloeus Casey, 1916 (Coleoptera, Laemophloeidae). Contributions to Entomology 75 (2): 289-297, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e160042
1A897AF973E357CD82562D5619EDD89C.taxon	description	Fig. 2 A – C	en	Bento, Matheus, Zeballos, Leandro, Rafael, José Albertino (2025): Reclassification of four South American species of Laemophloeus Dejean, 1835 into Charaphloeus Casey, 1916 (Coleoptera, Laemophloeidae). Contributions to Entomology 75 (2): 289-297, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e160042
1A897AF973E357CD82562D5619EDD89C.taxon	distribution	Distribution. BRAZIL. Bahia: Condeúba (formerly known as Santo Antônio da Barra).	en	Bento, Matheus, Zeballos, Leandro, Rafael, José Albertino (2025): Reclassification of four South American species of Laemophloeus Dejean, 1835 into Charaphloeus Casey, 1916 (Coleoptera, Laemophloeidae). Contributions to Entomology 75 (2): 289-297, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e160042
011760CBF16A58C1A125C7BB9E31D035.taxon	description	Figs 2 D – I, 3, 4	en	Bento, Matheus, Zeballos, Leandro, Rafael, José Albertino (2025): Reclassification of four South American species of Laemophloeus Dejean, 1835 into Charaphloeus Casey, 1916 (Coleoptera, Laemophloeidae). Contributions to Entomology 75 (2): 289-297, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e160042
011760CBF16A58C1A125C7BB9E31D035.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Elytra maculate, each with a broad, longitudinally elongate lateral pale macula expanded medially towards the sutural stria. Male posterior tarsi pentamerous. Male endophallus with a medially coiled, long apical sclerite.	en	Bento, Matheus, Zeballos, Leandro, Rafael, José Albertino (2025): Reclassification of four South American species of Laemophloeus Dejean, 1835 into Charaphloeus Casey, 1916 (Coleoptera, Laemophloeidae). Contributions to Entomology 75 (2): 289-297, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e160042
011760CBF16A58C1A125C7BB9E31D035.taxon	description	Re-description of male. (Figs 2 D – I, 3 A – D) Body length 2.4 mm, width at mid-elytra 0.9 mm; pronotal width 0.8 mm (widest point), medial length 0.5 mm; elytral width 0.4 mm (mid-elytron), length 1.3 mm. Body elongate, subparallel sided. Colouration. Head, pronotum, mouthparts and antennae light to dark brown, with mandibular apices and apical antennomeres darker; elytral ground colour light to dark brown, with large longitudinal, somewhat P-shaped pale macula expanded medially towards the sutural stria; venter light to dark brown. Head (Fig. 3 A) large, 1.6 times wider than long, shorter and slightly narrower than pronotum; surface moderately punctate, with punctures as large as eye facets, each bearing a minute seta. Frontoclypeal suture well defined laterally, medially effaced. Frons broad, with interocular width 8.3 times wider than transverse eye diameter. Median longitudinal line absent. Sublateral lines carinate, slightly curved. Clypeus 3 - emarginate, with mandibular emargination broad. Labrum (Fig. 4 B) large, as wide as labral emargination of clypeus, with anterior margin parabolic; surface moderately setose, with setae as long as labrum length (Fig. 4 B). Mandibles (Fig. 4 C, D) robust, elongate, slightly smaller than head and distinctly exposed beyond labrum, with two large apical teeth; incisive margin with one obtuse subapical tooth and one small, rounded medial tooth at right mandible (large, acute at left mandible; Fig. 4 C, D); prostheca membranous and densely pilose; molar area divided into two parts: a small, strongly sclerotised, toothed area; and a large, poorly-sclerotised and microdenticulate area bearing about 10 rows of minute rounded denticles. Maxilla (Fig. 4 E) elongate, with stipes as long as cardo and nearly straight externally; lacinia slender, with apex curved inwards and bifid; galea wide and longer than lacinia, with apex densely covered with long, apically curved setae; palp 4 - segmented, palpomere 2 longer than 3, palpomere 4 elongate, longer than palpomeres 1 – 3 combined. Labium (Fig. 4 A) large, with prementum broadly rounded, moderately covered with hair-like setae varying in length and short, spine-like apical setae; mentum short, stripe-shaped, transverse; submentum large, with apical angles narrowly rounded; palp 3 - segmented, with palpomere 2 elongate, 3.7 times longer than palpomere 1, palpomere 3 slightly longer than palpomeres 1 and 2 combined. Genal processes absent. Antennae long, almost longer than half the body length; scape short, oblong-elongate, about 2.7 times longer than wide and distinctly shorter than antennomeres 2 – 3 combined; pedicel elongate, about 0.6 times the length of scape; flagellum gradually widened towards apex, with antennomeres slightly elongate and narrowest at base; club 3 - segmented comprised of antennomeres 9 – 11; antennomeres 4 – 6 subequal in length, elongate and slightly shorter than 3; antennomeres 7 – 8 subequal in length, subglobose; 9 – 11 (club antennomeres) globose, subequal in length, larger than preceding antennomeres. Pronotum (Fig. 3 A) subtrapezoidal, 1.4 times wider than long and 1.4 times wider anteriorly than posteriorly. Surface moderately punctate, not microreticulate; punctures similar in size to cephalic punctures. Lateral margins beaded, evenly curved anteriorly, constricted posteriorly. Anterior angles not produced, narrowly rounded; posterior angles acute, posterolaterally produced. Sublateral lines complete to anterior margin, carinate and deeply impressed. Anterior margin not beaded, with a row of bifid setae. Elytra (Fig. 3 A) maculate, 1.5 times longer than conjunctly wide. Inner stria of cell 1 (sutural stria) medially effaced; striae of cells 2 – 3 poorly defined to indistinct. Epipleuron gradually narrowed and incomplete to apex. Legs (Fig. 3 B) elongate, with tibiae slightly shorter than femurs. Femurs slender; metafemur larger than pro- and mesofemur, with medial width less than half the length. Pro-, meso- and metatarsus as long as respective tibiae, with inner surface moderately setose. Tarsal formula 5 - 5 - 5. Terminalia. Claspers with two transverse, rhomboidal lobes, with inner apical angles broadly rounded; apical margin with long setae (Fig. 3 D). Aedeagus (Fig. 3 C). Median lobe as wide as tegmen, with apex abruptly narrowed and acute. Parameres narrowly triangular, fused together at basal half, free at apical half, with apex acute. Endophallus with a barely sclerotised basal sclerite and a medially coiled, long apical sclerite. Female. The female is very similar to the males and does not differ from them substantially. The internal and external genitalia are described as follows: Spermatheca globose, with a thumb-like projection; proximal gonocoxites longer than wide, weakly sclerotised; distal gonocoxites elongate, cylindrical, strongly sclerotised, as long as proximal gonocoxites, with long basal and apical setae; gonostyli club-shaped, as long as 1 / 3 of distal gonocoxites (Fig. 3 E).	en	Bento, Matheus, Zeballos, Leandro, Rafael, José Albertino (2025): Reclassification of four South American species of Laemophloeus Dejean, 1835 into Charaphloeus Casey, 1916 (Coleoptera, Laemophloeidae). Contributions to Entomology 75 (2): 289-297, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e160042
011760CBF16A58C1A125C7BB9E31D035.taxon	distribution	Distribution. BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Friburgo (Grouvelle 1876); Paraná: Ponta Grossa (new state record); Santa Catarina: Nova Teutônia (new state record).	en	Bento, Matheus, Zeballos, Leandro, Rafael, José Albertino (2025): Reclassification of four South American species of Laemophloeus Dejean, 1835 into Charaphloeus Casey, 1916 (Coleoptera, Laemophloeidae). Contributions to Entomology 75 (2): 289-297, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e160042
