Exysma Gorham, 1891: 145

Arriaga-Varela, Emmanuel, Tomaszewska, Wioletta & Navarrete-Heredia, José Luis, 2007, A synopsis of the Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) of México, Zootaxa 1594, pp. 1-38 : 8-9

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.178655

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6244500

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scientific name

Exysma Gorham, 1891: 145
status

 

Exysma Gorham, 1891: 145 .

Type species: Exysma laevigata Gorham, 1891 . Parexysma Csiki, 1905: 573 .

A Neotropical genus with 3 species distributed from México to Central America . One species in México.

7. E. laevigata Gorham, 1891 . Fig. 17 View FIGURES 15 – 18

Exysma laevigata Gorham, 1891: 145 ; Blackwelder 1945: 437; Strohecker 1953: 27.

Type locality: not designated.

Type material: syntypes in BMNH.

Distribution: México: TAB, VER; Panamá.

Some specimens were collected on a primavera ( Bignoniaceae : Tabebuia ) log and on pineapple.

Blackwelder, R. E. 1945. Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, The West Indies, and South America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 185, 343 - 550.

Csiki, E. (1905) Conspectus generum mycetaeinorum, endomychidarum subfamiliae. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 3, 573 - 574.

Strohecker, H. F. (1953) Coleoptera Fam. Endomychidae. In, Wytsman P. (ed.), Genera Insectorum. Desmet-Verneuil, Brussels, 140 pp.

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FIGURES 15 – 18. Endomychidae species recorded from México. 15, Bystus limbatus (Gorham) (3.3 mm). 16, Catapotia laevissima Thomson (3.1 mm). 17, Exysma laevigata Gorham (1.7 mm). 18, Rhymbomicrus hemisphaericuss (Champion) (1.0 mm).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

SuperFamily

Cucujoidea

Family

Endomychidae