Taphroscelidia, Crotch, 1873

Zubarán, Gastón E. & Di Iorio, Osvaldo R., 2018, The family Passandridae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) in Argentina with comments on species from Brazil and Paraguay, Zootaxa 4425 (3), pp. 471-497 : 483

Taphroscelidia sp.

Figs. 2 (distribution), 13 (habitus)

Material examined: PARAGUAY: Canindeyú: Reserva Mbaracayú, Jejuí-mi, 20-XII-2003 , Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. [ DIOC], emerged 2004 from an undetermined vine [lopped X-2003] (Appendix 1); ARGENTINA: Corrientes: Río Paraná, Islas Noguera , 30-VIII-1990, Di Iorio leg., 2 exx. [ DIOC], emerged 3-I-91 (1), without date (1) from Mimosa pigra [dry branch] (Appendix 1); Río Paraná, Islas Noguera , 26–27-II-1991, Di Iorio leg., 7 exx. [DIOC], emerged IV- 91 (4), X-91 (3) from Paullinia elegans [dry vine] ( Appendix 1).

Note. Very probably an undescribed species (not described here), smaller than T. semicastanea and similar to the smaller specimens of T. humeralis , but totally light orange in color.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Geographic distributions of Passandridae from Argentina and Paraguay: Catogenus longicornis, circles, Taphroscelidia sp., square.