Published March 4, 2020 | Version v1
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Cleicosta Vega-Badillo & Zaragoza-Caballero & Ivie 2020, gen. nov.

Description

Key to species of Cleicosta gen. nov.

1. Body length 2.4 mm; 4 th (terminal) maxillary palpomere 1.5 times longer than preceding 3 combined;antennal rami lanceolate,twice as long as respective antennomere............ Cleicosta equatoreana sp.nov.

1’. Body length greater than 3 mm; 4 th (terminal) maxillary palpomere as long as preceding 3 combined; antennal rami lanceolate, 1.5 times longer than respective antennomere.................................................2

2. Body color light brown; interocular distance 3 times greater than eye width;1 st tarsomere of all legs shorter than respective 2 nd tarsomere................................................................. Cleicosta monaguense sp.nov.

2’. Body color brown; interocular distance 4 times greater than eye width; 1 st and 2 nd tarsomeres of all legs about same length............... Cleicosta breviplumata comb.nov.

Notes

Published as part of Vega-Badillo, Viridiana, Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago & Ivie, Michael A., 2020, A new genus of Phengodidae (Coleoptera) from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-7 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) 60 (6) on page 6, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.special-issue.06, http://zenodo.org/record/4615094

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Vega-Badillo & Zaragoza-Caballero & Ivie
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Phengodidae
Genus
Cleicosta
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Cleicosta Vega-Badillo, Zaragoza-Caballero & Ivie, 2020