Sphallotrichus bidens (Fabricius, 1801)

Fig. 3

Distribution. Venezuela, Colombia, French Guiana, Brazil (Acre,Amazonas, Amapá, Pará, Mato Grosso, Maranhão, Ceará, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Santa Catarina), and Bolivia (Monné, 2024a; Tavakilian & Chevillotte, 2024).

New state record. BRAZIL — Rondônia.

Diagnosis. Sphallotrichus bidens (Fig. 3) can be recognized among its congeners by the pronotum glabrous, coarsely and densely punctate at sides; femora bicolorous, reddish orange with apical third black (Martins & Monné, 2005).

Material examined. BRASIL: RO, Colorado do Oeste, 13º07’25”S, 60º29’21”W, Amazon forest, 1 male ,

1 female, fruit-baited trap, 08.X.2022, D. Brandão, A. Puker, J. Evangelista, L. Evangelista, and C. Mattos leg.

(MNRJ-ENT 7-47657; MNRJ-ENT 7-47658). Trap colors. Specimens of S. bidens were collected in all trap colors (Table 1).