The First Species of Pamphantinae From Puerto Rico (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae)

The subfamily Pamphantinae was erected by Barber & Bruner (1933) with Pamphantus Stal as type genus. Prior to. that time only three species were known, all fr.om Cuba. Barber & Bruner described a new genus, Neopamphantus, also from Cuba, and recorded a new species, Pamphantus atrohumeralis, from Haiti. Barber has recently (1954a) described a remarkable new Cuban genus, Abpamphantus and in the same year (1954b) a second new genus, Pa.rapamphantus, from Brazil, this latter representing the first occurrence of the subfamily outside of the West Indies. The new species described in the present paper is the, first species known from Puerto Rico and adds an additi.onal island to the distributi.on of this essentially Caribbean group.