On Neotropical Merophysiinae with descriptions of a new genus and new species (Coleoptera, Endomychidae).

Intensive survey of museum collections and new field collecting resulted in discovery of six new, closely related species of the Neotropical Merophysiinae. A new species of the genus Champion, ., from Bolivia and Brazil, and five new species from Mexico for which a new genus is proposed here as .: (type species), , , , ., have been discovered. , ., Champion and all new species are diagnosed, described, and illustrated. Keys to the species of and and a distribution map are provided. A lectotype of Champion, 1913 is designated. Molecular barcodes of three new species of are provided in order to help with the identification of these taxa.