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TWO NEW AMERICAN BRUCHIDS IN THE SORDIDUS GROUP OF STATOR (COLEOPTERA: BRUCHIDAE) WITH NOTES ON OTHER SPECIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

L. J. Bottimer
Affiliation:
Entomology Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa

Abstract

Stator vachelliae new species is described from Texas, Mexico, El Salvador, and Venezuela and S. mexicanus new species is described from San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Stator usticolor (Sharp) and S. semicolon (Sharp) NEW COMBINATIONS have been determined as belonging to the sordidus complex. The following rearing records are recorded: S. vachelliae and S. subaeneus (Schaeffer) from Acacia farnesiana and S. mexicanus from Acacia cornigera.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1973

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