Quammenis Erwin, 2000

Erwin, Terry L. & Zamorano, Laura S., 2014, A synopsis of the tribe Lachnophorini, with a new genus of Neotropical distribution and a revision of the Neotropical genus Asklepia Liebke, 1938 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae), ZooKeys 430, pp. 1-108 : 21-22

Quammenis Erwin, 2000 Hygropetric green beetles Figs 1 , 2 , 22

Quammenis Erwin, 2000:279

Type species.

Quammenis spectabilis Erwin, 2000:280

Way of life.

Size range - 6.5 mm to 7.0 mm; these beetles occur on steep or vertical wet rocky surfaces with mosses and ferns and other hygrophilous plants in cloud forests (e.g., hygropetric habitats such as vertical waterfalls, seeps, wet rocks, etc. (see Fig. 2 )).

Distribution.

Costa Rica.

Notes.

Currently, one described species is assigned to this genus.

References.

Erwin (2000); Bousquet (2012).

Figures

Figure 1. Quammenis spectabilis Erwin. Live individual in its natural hygropetric habitat in Costa Rica. Photo credit: K. Taro Eldredge, University of Kansas.

Figure 2. Natural hygropetric habitat in Costa Rica of Quammenis spectabilis Erwin with Andrew Short and his University of Kansas grad students Crystal Maier and Clay McIntosh. Photo credit: K. Taro Eldredge, University of Kansas.

Figure 19 - 22. 19 Pseudophorticus sp. (all species in South America are either undescribed or placed in Euphorticus G. Horn). Digital Photo-illustration. Habitus, dorsal aspect, based on specimen ADP 132538 from Pakitza, Peru 20 Selina westermanni Motschulsky. Digital Photo-illustration. Habitus, dorsal aspect, based on specimen ADP 132536 from China Bay, Sri Lanka 21 Stenocheila lacordairei Laporte de Castelnau. Digital Photo-illustration. Habitus, dorsal aspect, based on specimen ADP 133801 from Chapada dos Guimares, Brazil 22 Quammenis spectabilis Erwin. Digital Photo-illustration. Habitus, dorsal aspect, based on specimen ADP 100513 from Estacion Zurqui, Costa Rica.