A new genus and 14 new species of Anopidiina are described from the West Indies. Prototyrtaeus Spiessberger and Ivie, new genus (type species: Prototyrtaeus darlingtoni Spiessberger and Ivie, new species) is described from the Greater Antillean islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico, with 14 new species: Prototyrtaeus duartei Spiessberger and Ivie, new species; Prototyrtaeus neiba Spiessberger and Ivie, new species; Prototyrtaeus unomas Spiessberger and Ivie, new species; Prototyrtaeus obrieni Spiessberger and Ivie, new species; Prototyrtaeus pecki Spiessberger and Ivie, new species; Prototyrtaeus gracilicornis Spiessberger and Ivie, new species; Prototyrtaeus howdeni Spiessberger and Ivie, new species; Prototyrtaeus sandersoni Spiessberger and Ivie, new species; Prototyrtaeus beckeri Spiessberger and Ivie, new species; Prototyrtaeus darlingtoni, new species; Prototyrtaeus maestrensis Spiessberger and Ivie, new species; Prototyrtaeus felis Spiessberger and Ivie, new species; Prototyrtaeus turquinensis Spiessberger and Ivie, new species; Prototyrtaeus auranticornis Spiessberger and Ivie, new species. The enigmatic single record of the family Byrrhidae from the West Indies (Puerto Rico) is resolved as a misidentification of Prototyrtaeus.
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22 December 2020
A New Genus and Fourteen New Species of Anopidiina (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Diaperinae: Gnathidiini) from the West Indies
Erich L. Spiessberger,
Michael A. Ivie
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The Coleopterists Bulletin
Vol. 74 • No. 4
December 2020
Vol. 74 • No. 4
December 2020
Byrrhidae
darkling beetles
neotropical
taxonomy
Tenebrionoidea