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Issue: Vol. 84 No. 2: 28 May 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-05-28
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2026.84.2.2
Page range: 57-62
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 0

A new species of the genus Leptobium Casey, 1905 from Libya, with new and additional records of the genus in the western Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)

Manisa Celal Bayar University; Alaşehir Vocational School; TR-45600; Alaşehir; Manisa; Turkey
Manisa Celal Bayar University; Alaşehir Vocational School; TR-45600; Alaşehir; Manisa; Turkey
Rove beetles Paederinae Leptobium Libya new species country records Neotropical fauna species distribution models

Abstract

Leptobium libycum sp. nov. from north-western Libya is described, illustrated and compared with related congeners. The distribution of the Leptobium species in Libya is mapped. New and additional records of four species and two subspecies, L. artum (Karsch), L. brevicolle (Koch), L. densiventre (Fauvel), L. gracile (Gravenhorst), L. nigricolle continentale Jarrige, L. nigricolle nigricolle (Wollaston), from the western Palaearctic region are also reported. Among them, L. densiventre from the Italian mainland and L. gracile from Iraq and Libya are recorded for the first time.

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