TY  - GEN
A1  - Rifkind, Jacques
T1  - New genera and species of mimetic Cleridae from Mexico and Central America (Coleoptera: Cleroidea)
T2  - Insecta mundi
N2  - New genera and species of putatively mimetic Cleridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea) are described from Mexico and Central America: Namba testacea, new genus and species from Nuevo León, Mexico; Aulicoides leavengoodi, new genus and species from Jalisco, Mexico; and Quadrophenia, new genus, which includes Q. townshendi, new species, from Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, Q. mooni, new species, from Costa Rica, Q. entwistlei, new species, from Guatemala and Honduras, Q. daltreyi, new species, from Costa Rica, and Q. sumidero new species, from Chiapas, Mexico. A key to the species of Quadrophenia is provided. All of the newly described species are hypothesized to be Batesian mimics of aposematically colored coleopteran models, some of which are known to be chemically protected.
T3  - Insecta Mundi - 591 
KW  - Taxonomy
KW  - checkered beetles
KW  - Chrysomelidae
KW  - Melyridae
KW  - tropical deciduous forest
KW  - cloud forest
KW  - pine forest
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45399
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-453995
UR  - http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/insectamundi/PDF-download.asp?FileName=0591_Rifkind_2017.pdf
SN  - 1942-1354
SN  - 0749-6737
N1  - Copyright held by the author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons, Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
SP  - 1
EP  - 18
PB  - Flora & Fauna Publ.
CY  - Gainesville, Fla.
ER  -