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Description of three new species belonging to genus Melittomma (Coleoptera, Lymexylidae) in the Neotropical region with annotations about Melittomma brasiliense (Castelnau, 1832)

A taxonomic study of the neotropical species belonging to Melittomma is given, emphasizing those species distributed on Brazilian territory. A short discussion about diagnostic characters for M. brasiliense is given with data of its geographical distribution; descriptions and illustrations of three new species, Melittomma nana sp.n. distributed on Neotropical region, M. brunnea sp.n. from Central Amazon basin and M. panamensis sp.n. from Panama area, are presented.

Amazonia; Coleoptera; Lymexylidae; Melittomma; Taxonomy


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