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Issue: Vol. 2882 No. 1: 18 May. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-05-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2882.1.7
Page range: 64–68
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 3

Bembidion (Plataphodes) kmecoi sp. nov. from China, Sichuan (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiina)

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona, Italy
Department of Forest Protection and Game Management, Faculty of Forestry, Wildlife and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, CZ-165 21 Praha 6 – Suchdol, Czech Republic
Coleoptera Blepharoplataphus taxonomy new species key for species

Abstract

Bembidion kmecoi sp. nov. herewith described, sister species of Bembidion farkaci Toledano & Sciaky, 1998, is the third species of the subgenus Plataphodes Ganglbauer, 1891 known from China. A key for the identification of these species is provided. Another species, B. elatum Andrewes, 1930, formerly known as Plataphodes, is transferred to Blepharoplataphus Netolitzky, 1920. Nomenclatorial acts proposed in this paper: Description of Bembidion (Plataphodes) kmecoi sp. nov. (China); Species transferred from Bembidion subg. Plataphodes Ganglbauer, 1891 to Bembidion subg. Blepharoplataphus Netolitzky, 1920: B. elatum Andrewes, 1930.

References

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