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In a recent paper, the author identified the characters of Charaphloeus Casey, 1916 (Laemophloeidae) more precisely and described and illustrated ten new species from the lowland natural rain forests of the Amazon basin in Peru (Bremer 2023). In this paper the author is describing six Charaphloeus species from the central part of the Amazon basin near Manaus, Brazil. Species described and illustrated herein are Charaphloeus barclayi sp. nov., C. hurtadoi sp. nov., C. ingratus sp. nov., C. paulus sp. nov., C. vonmartii sp. nov. and C. wallacei sp. nov. Specimens of these new species were collected using light traps from trees of the genus Eschwaleira von Martius, 1828. Two Charaphloeus species described in the first paper from Peru (Bremer (2023) are also occurring in the central part of the Amazon basin (Charaphloeus karneri Bremer, 2023 and C. prosopis Bremer, 2023). They bring up the number of the known species from the central part of the Amazon area to eight species.
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