View, read, or make a reprint of this item in its original format, including tables and illustrations. Go to homepage of Florida Entomologist on WWW for more information about this service. The group feeds on bromeliads. In the present paper the genus is redefined to include two new species collected in Colombia. This genus apparently is restricted to feeding on members of the Bromeliaceae, and specimens were collected on the heart of Ananas comosus and Aechmea bracteata.
All measurements are in millimeters.
In the other two genera the posttylar sulcus is present, antennal segment I longer, humeral pronotal angles acute to subacute, and hind tibiae cylindrical and sulcate. The suprageneric position of these three genera is complex. He also believes, based on aedeagal characters and lack of a posttylar sulcus, that its affinities may be closer to members of the tribe Nematopodini or even the subfamily Meropachydinae. Key to Species 1. Total body length 10.68, 12.97.