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Issue: Vol. 3351 No. 1: 19 Jun. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-06-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3351.1.6
Page range: 60–68
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 4

A new species of the genus Clastopus Fairmaire, 1898 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini) from Madagascar

Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warsaw, Poland
Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warsaw, Poland
Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, 94118, USA
Coleoptera Taxonomy darkling beetles Platynotina Clastopus griswoldi sp. nov. Toliara Province

Abstract

A new species of the genus Clastopus Fairmaire, 1898 is described and illustrated. At present this genus consists of five speciesdistributed on the island of Madagascar: C. aberlenci Iwan, 2005, C. eurynotoides Fairmaire, 1898, C. ordinarius (Iwan, 1996),C. tenuiculus (Iwan, 1996) and C. griswoldi sp. nov. The material studied was acquired from California Academy of Sciences expeditions conducted between 2000 and 2002. A key is proposed to the species of Clastopus.

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