Catops spinipes, (Murray, 1856: 396)

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 28

D. spinipes ( Murray, 1856: 396)

(Catops); Reitter, 1884: 40 comb.; Portevin, 1902: 513 (as comb.), 1903a: 159 (no new data), 1921: 535; Jeannel, 1936: 153 (assignment to group); Salgado, 2010a: 301, 2010b: 152, 2016a: 63. No information about types in original description;

Syntypes (sex and number of specimens not given in Jeannel, 1936, but Portevin, 1921 refers to “cotypes”; a male aedeagus illustrated in Jeannel, 1936) in MNHN [in Jeannel, 1936].

Type locality: Caracas, [Distrito Capital, Venezuela].

Distribution: Bolivia ( longispina ): Cochabamba Department; Costa Rica: Limón and Puntarenas Provinces; Ecuador: Pichincha, and Zamora- Chinchipe Provinces; Mexico: Hidalgo State; Venezuela: Distrito Capital and Táchira State.

= D. longispina Portevin, 1927b: 52 ; Jeannel, 1936: 153 syn. (not stated as taxonomic change).? Syntype (s) (sex and number of specimens not given in original description, or in Jeannel, 1936) in DEIC (as “Museum Dahlem”, in Jeannel, 1936). Type locality: “Yungas” (collected by “Germain”) [Note: Probably Philibert Germain, who collected around Cochabamba, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia in 1889 ( Papavero, 1971: 161). In 1889 the region was broadly called Yungas, and we can find no mention of it as a political region at that time. Cochabamba was one of the few places providing access to the Yungas in 1889. The term is still used for this ecoregion of mid elevation wet forest on the east slopes of the Andes of Bolivia.]