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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Insecta Mundi Florida 4-28-2017 A new Neotropical genus in the Laemophloeidae, with notes on Phloeolaemus Casey (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) Michael C. Thomas Florida State Collection of Arthropods, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi Part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, and the Entomology Commons Thomas, Michael C., "A new Neotropical genus in the Laemophloeidae, with notes on Phloeolaemus Casey (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)" (2017). Insecta Mundi. 1058. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/1058 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. 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Box 147100 Gainesville, FL 32614–7100, USA [email protected] Abstract. The genus Paraphloeolaemus Thomas (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Laemophloeidae) is described for two new Neotropical species, P. vorticosus Thomas, new species, and P. pterosiagon Thomas, new species. Diagnoses and illustrations are provided. The following 16 species are transferred from Laemophloeus Dejean (s. l.) to Phloeolaemus Casey: Phloeolaemus anticus (Sharp, 1899: 518) [= Laemophloeus anticus Sharp, 1899], new combination; Phloeolaemus boops (Sharp, 1899: 517) [= Laemophloeus boops Sharp, 1899], new combination; Phloeolaemus castaneipennis (Grouvelle, 1876: 494) [= Laemophloeus castaneipennis Grouvelle, 1876: 494], new combination; Phloeolaemus championi (Sharp, 1899: 516) [= Laemophloeus championi Sharp, 1899], new combination; Phloeolaemus curtus (Grouvelle, 1876: xxxiii) [= Laemophloeus curtus Grouvelle, 1876], new combination; Phloeolaemus endomychus (Sharp, 1899: 519) [= Laemophloeus endomychus Sharp, 1899], new combination; Phloeolaemus hoplites (Sharp, 1899: 517) [= Laemophloeus hoplites Sharp, 1899], new combination; Phloeolaemus ignobilis (Sharp, 1899: 518) [= Laemophloeus ignobilis Sharp, 1899], new combination; Phloeolaemus impressus (Grouvelle, 1876: xxxiii) [= Laemophloeus impressus Grouvelle, 1876], new combination; Phloeolaemus lacerdae (Grouvelle, 1877: 211) [= Laemophloeus lacerdae Grouvelle, 1877], new combination; Phloeolaemus macrocephalus (Schaeffer, 1910: 214) [= Laemophloeus macrocephalus Schaeffer, 1910], new combination; Phloeolaemus punctulaticollis (Hetschko, 1929: 94) [= Laemophloeus punctulaticollis Hetschko, 1929], new combination; Phloeolaemus reitteri (Grouvelle, 1877: 210) [= Laemophloeus reitteri Grouvelle, 1877], new combination; Phloeolaemus semiflavus (Grouvelle, 1876: 497) [= Laemophloeus semiflavus Grouvelle, 1876], new combination; Phloeolaemus sharpi (Hetschko, 1929: 41) [= Laemophloeus sharpi Hetschko, 1929], new combination; Phloeolaemus straminipennis (Reitter, 1876: 47) [= Laemophloeus straminipennis Reitter, 1876], new combination; Phloeolaemus teapensis (Grouvelle, 1876: 494) [= Laemophloeus teapensis Grouvelle, 1876], new combination. Introduction The genus Phloeolaemus was proposed by Casey (1916: 127) as a subgenus of Laemophloeus Dejean for the single species Laemophloeus immersus Sharp. Like most of the “cucujid” subgeneric names proposed by Casey, Phloeolaemus was not recognized by subsequent authors until much later in the 20th Century. It was raised to generic rank (Thomas 1993: 70) and two additional species – L. chamaeropis Schwarz, 1878 and L. quinquearticulatus Grouvelle, 1896 – were assigned to it. In recent years, addi- tional species have been included in Phloeolaemus in on-line species lists (e.g. Hallan 2008; Thomas 2011). None of these generic reassignments has taxonomic standing as none was published. Over the past several decades I have accumulated many specimens of Phloeolaemus, examined type specimens, and photographed them when possible. Occasionally I encountered specimens that resembled those of Phloeolaemus but seemed to be generically distinct. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new genus and two new species for these specimens, and to transfer species from Laemophloeus (s. l.) to Phloeolaemus where justified. Materials and Methods Habitus photos were taken through a Leica Z16 APO microscope equipped with a JVC KY-F75U 3- CCD camera and controlled by Syncroscopy AutoMontage® software; high magnification genitalic pho- tographs were taken using a Leica DM 2500 microscope and resulting image stacks were processed 1 2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0541, April 2017 THOMAS using CombineZP®. Scanning electron photomicrographs were produced with a JEOL JSM-5510LV. Images were post-processed with Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7®. Genitalia were dissected as described in Thomas (1984) and were slide-mounted in Hoyer’s solution for photography. Subsequently, they were soaked off the slide and imbedded in a drop of dimethyl hydantoin formaldehyde on the card point with the respective specimen. Genitalic terminology follows that used in Thomas (1984). Measurements, using the measuring utility in Leica Application Suite v. 3 on a Leica M205C, were taken as follows: Length: Total body length was derived by adding the following measurements: Head, from anteriormost point of epistome to basal