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Type locality:

“Cerro Togogo”, 3.5 km NW Maicillal, Edo. Falcón, Venezuela

Type repository:

Holotype ♂: ZMHB

Paratype(s): CLBC, FRCM, MHCB, MIZA, NMPC, SGCB, ZMHB

Ecology:

Collected by beating the leguminose tree Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb.) Benth. (Fabaceae). The adult beetles were mostly sitting on twigs with young leaves and scarcely exhibited flight behaviour.

Flight period:

V, VII

Size:

12-17 mm

Remarks:

The species is named in reference to Francisco Romero Rodríguez (1920-2002), patriarch of the well known entomologically active family from Maracay, Venezuela, who collected the very first specimen of the new species.

Paratype ♀: VE, Edo. Falcón, 3.5 km NW Maicillal, Cerro Togogo, 64 m.s.l., SGCB.