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Issue: Vol. 2797 No. 1: 22 Mar. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-03-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2797.1.6
Page range: 57–64
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 5

Three new species of Cylloepus Erichson (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elmidae) from Southeastern Brazil

Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Caixa Postal 68044, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-971, Brazil Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas - Zoologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Laboratório de Insetos Aquáticos, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Av. Paster 458, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 20290-240, Brazil
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Caixa Postal 68044, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-971, Brazil
Coleoptera Atlantic forest Cylloepus quinquecarinatus sp. nov. Cylloepus nessimiani sp. nov. Cylloepus friburguensis sp. nov. Elminae Neotropical Region Rio Macaé Basin Brazil

Abstract

The genus Cylloepus is found in the Nearctic and Neotropical Regions and currently represented by 52 species. Twenty species are recorded from Brazil, and three of them from Rio de Janeiro State. Here three new species of Cylloepus are described—Cylloepus quinquecarinatus sp. nov., Cylloepus nessimiani sp. nov., and Cylloepus friburguensis sp. nov. All were collected in the Rio Macaé Basin, Rio de Janeiro State, southeastern Brazil.

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