A new sympatric record of two species of the genus Parapsammodius (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Colombia

Karla Bueno López; Julián Clavijo-Bustos

doi:10.30550/j.azl/1961

Authors

Karla Bueno López Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1248-2501
Julián Clavijo-Bustos Sección de Entomología, Colecciones Biológicas, Centro Colecciones y Gestión de Especies, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0478-3877

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30550/j.azl/1961

Keywords:

Aphodiinae, Eupariini, Psammodiini, Parapsammodius integer, Parapsammodius pseudointeger

Abstract

The genus Parapsammodius Verdú, Stebnicka & Galante, 2006 consists of four species distributed in the Americas and the West Indies, and only two of them are present in northern South America. Parapsammodius integer (Bates, 1887) and Parapsammodius pseudointeger Verdú, Stebnicka & Galante, 2006 have been recorded in sympatry in Ecuador, and only the former have been formally reported from Colombia. During a recent expedition in the Amazonic department of Putumayo, in Colombia, these two species were captured in sympatry using a UV light trap; the objective of this paper is to report the first sympatric record of P. integer and P. pseudointeger from Colombia, which also represent the first record of this latter species for the country. Label information of specimens studied by us and previously reported in literature, suggest that P. integer and P. pseudointeger are mostly captured by light-attraction methods and in forest or near so.

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