Material examined.

Taxon classification

Animalia

Coleoptera

Coccinellidae

Nestor-Arriola

Jorge Ismael

Toledo-Hernández

Víctor Hugo

Solís

Ángel

González

Guillermo

Větrovec

Jaroslav

The

Brachiacantha

Dejean, 1837 (

Coleoptera

Coccinellidae

) of Central America

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Brachiacantha

dentipes

(Fabricius)

Coccinella

dentipes

Fabricius, 1801: 381. Oliver 1808: 1051. Say 1835: 202.

Brachyacantha

dentipes

: Mulsant 1850: 525. Crotch 1873: 378. Gorham 1894: 196. Casey 1899: 120. Nunenmacher 1909: 162. Leng 1911: 300. Korschefsky 1931: 204. Wingo 1952: 27. Chapin 1974: 44.

Brachyacantha

socialis

Casey, 1899: 119. Wingo 1952: 27.

Brachyacantha

dentipes

socialis

: Leng 1911: 301.

Brachyacantha

dentipes

americana

Leng, 1911: 302.

Brachyacantha

dentipes

var.

separata

Leng, 1911: 301. Wingo 1952: 27.

Brachyacantha

dentipes

ab.

socialis

: Korschefsky 1931: 204.

Brachyacantha

dentipes

ab.

separata

: Korschefsky 1931: 204.

Brachiacantha

dentipes

: Gordon 1985: 564. Flores-Mejía and Salas-Araiza 2004: 14. Nestor-Arriola and Toledo-Hernández 2019: 542.

Material examined.

340 specimens from Costa Rica: Alajuela, San José, Guanacaste, Heredia, Puntarenas, and San José; Honduras: El Paraíso and Olancho (FSCA, USNMNH, OUMNH, MNCR, MUCR, MZCR).

Diagnosis.

Length 3–4.5 mm, width 2.1–3.2 mm. Three to four spots on each elytron; the spots may be fused. Third male ventrite with large, subtriangular divergent cusps. Male genitalia with wide parameres with strong tubercle on the concave margin; penis guide with elongated apical hook.

Distribution.

From the south of the USA to Costa Rica, including the Bahamas.

Discussion.

This species is very similar to B. bistripustulata, but the male third ventrite has larger cusps and the male genitalia are more robust in B. dentipes.

Say

(1835) Descriptions of new American coleopterous insects, and observations on some already described.Boston Journal Natural History1: 151–203.

Mulsant

(1850) Species de Coléoptères trimères sécuripalpes.Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, d’agriculture et d’industrie Lyon2: 1–1104. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8953

Crotch

(1873) Revision of the

Coccinellidae

of the United States.Transactions of the American Entomological Society4: 363–382. https://doi.org/10.2307/25076278

Gorham

(1894)

Coccinellidae

.Biologia Centrali-Americana,

Insecta

Coleoptera

7: 177–208.

Casey

(1899) A revision of the American

Coccinellidae

.Journal of the New York Entomological Society7: 7–169.

Nunenmacher

(1909) Two new species of

Coccinellidae

(

Coleoptera

).Entomological News22: 161–162.

Leng

(1911) The species of

Brachyacantha

of North and South America.Bulletin American Museum of Natural History30: 279–333.

Korschefsky

(1931)

Coccinellidae

I. Coleopterorum Catalogus. Part 118. W.Junk, Berlin, 224 pp.

Wingo

(1952) The

Coccinellidae

(

Coleoptera

) of the upper Mississippi Basin.Iowa State Journal of Science27: 15–53.

Chapin

(1974) The

Coccinellidae

of Louisiana (

Insecta

Coleoptera

).Louisiana State University Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin682: 1–87.

Gordon

(1985) The

Coccinellidae

(

Coleoptera

) of America North of Mexico.Journal of the New York Entomological Society93(1): 1–912.

Flores-Mejía

Salas-Araiza

(2004) Coccinélidos (

Coleoptera

Coccinellidae

) del Estado de Guanajuato en la Colección Leopoldo Tinoco Corona de la Universidad de Guanajauto.Acta Universitaria14(2): 8–16. https://doi.org/10.15174/au.2004.233

Nestor-Arriola

Toledo-Hernández

(2019) Contribution to the knowledge of the

dentipes

group of the genus

Brachiacantha

(

Coleoptera

Coccinellidae

).Zootaxa4701(6): 537–552. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.3