Rhymbomicrus Casey, 1916 : 139

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

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scientific name	Rhymbomicrus Casey, 1916 : 139
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Rhymbomicrus Casey, 1916: 139 .

Type species: Alexia lobata LeConte & Horn, 1883 . Micropsephellus Arrow, 1920: 79 .

American genus with 5 known species: 3 from eastern United States, one from Lesser Antilles and one from México, and Central America ( Pakaluk 1987) . Most specimens have been collected in forest litter or under bark ( Pakaluk 1987).

9. R. hemisphaericus ( Champion, 1913) Fig. 18 View FIGURES 15 – 18 .

Micropsephus hemisphaericus Champion, 1913: 118 .

Micropsephellus hemisphaericus: Arrow 1920: 80 ; Blackwelder 1945: 437. Rhymbomicrus hemisphaericus: Strohecker 1953: 17 .

Type locality: not designated.

Type material: syntypes in BMNH.

Distribution: México, Guatemala, Nicaragua.

References

Arrow, G. J. (1920) A contribution to the classification of the coleopterous family Endomychidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1 - 83, pl. 1.

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.

Casey, T. (1916) Memoirs on the Coleoptera 7. New Era Print. Co., Lancaster, 300 pp.

Champion, G. C. (1913) Notes on various Central American Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1913, 58 - 169. 3 - 4 pls.

LeConte J. L. & Horn, G. H. (1883) Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 507: XXXVIII + 567 pp.

Pakaluk J. (1987) Revision of the North American Rhymbomicrus Casey (Coleoptera, Endomychidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 80, 456 - 461.

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