Cylloepus lahottensis (Darlington, 1936) comb. n.

Helmis lahottensis Darlington, 1936:81

Diagnosis: Body subparallel. Reddish brown colour. Body surface with punctures covered by short golden setae. Frontoclypeal suture distinct, straight. Pronotum with sublateral carinae extending from base to anterior margin. Disc with a large, deep longitudinal impression, extending only to the posterior margin. Elytra, with 3 carinae; a short carina extending 1/5 on third intervals and two sublateral carinae on sixth and eighth intervals, extending 4/5. Hypomera very large, without tomentum. Prosternum, mesoventrite, metaventrite, epipleura and all 5 abdominal ventrites covered by tomentum, and punctures well impressed. Legs short, femora and tibiae around 1/3 the length of the elytra. Maximum length: 2.21mm. Maximum width: 0.73mm.

Type locality: Haiti

Material examined: 2 specimens

Holotype: NE foothills / La Hotte / 2–4000ft. / Oct.10–24 | Haiti / 1934 / Darlington | 21794 / M. C. Z. / Type / Helmis / lahottensis / D. | Drawing / by Y. T. Sohn / 19. [printed]/ [male symbol] GENIT. NMNH—PJS [handwritten, referring to dissection by P. J. Spangler at NMNH] (MCZ), (study based on photographs available on the internet in the MCZ type database) . Paratype: NE foothills / La Hotte / 2–4000ft. / Oct.10–24 | Haiti / 1934 / Darlington | 21794 / M. C. Z . / Paratype | H. / lahottensis / Darl. | Cylloepus / lahottensis / Darl. | H.E. Hinton / collection / B.M. 1977-566. | NHMUK010583875. (BMNH) .

Comments: Cylloepus lahottensis (Darlington 1936) was described from Haiti in the genus Elmis . Hinton (1945) transferred it to Cylloepus Erichson, 1847, but Shepard (Jäch et al. 2016), based on the photograph of the holotype (housed at MCZ), transferred this species to Hexacylloepus Hinton, 1940 . C. lahottensis does not have tomentum on the hypomerom, one of the major diagnostic characters to differentiate Hexacylloepus from Cylloepus (Hinton 1940a) . After study of the types housed at MCZ and BMNH, we agree with Hinton, this species has all the characters of Cylloepus; a robust, elongate body; genae, epipleura, sides of prosternum, mesoventrite, metaventrite, and abdominal sternites covered by tomentum; pronotum with a sublateral longitudinal carinae on each side and a longitudinal impression, and striate and punctate elytra, without accessory striae. For these reasons this species is here transferred to the genus Cylloepus .