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Issue: Vol. 3058 No. 1: 13 Oct. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-10-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3058.1.2
Page range: 22–34
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 28

One new genus and six new species of Coraebini Bedel, 1921 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the Philippines

Plant Pest Diagnostic Branch, California Department of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, California, 95832, U.S.A
1-chome 12-4, Sumiyoshi, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki-ken 300-1151, Japan
Coleoptera Buprestidae Coraebini Toxoscelina Toxoscelus new genus new species Philippines Leyte Luzon Negros

Abstract

New Philippine Coraebini (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) are described: one new genus, Visayasella, gen. nov., is erected for two new species: the type species Visayasella superba sp. nov. from Leyte and V. gracilis sp. nov. from Negros. The new genus is contrasted to the genera Obenbergerula Strand 1932 (= Böttcheria Hoscheck 1931) and Sibuyanella Obenberger 1942 in a table of character states. Four new species of Toxoscelus Deyrolle 1864 are described from Leyte: Toxoscelus actenodes sp. nov., T. bichromoplagiatus sp. nov., T. circumscriptus, sp. nov. and T. griseovariegatus sp. nov. and contrasted with the two previously described Toxoscelus species from Luzon: T. acutipennis Fisher 1922 and T. rugicollis Saunders 1874 in a key. The six new species and several putatively related genera and species are illustrated in two color plates.

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