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Issue: Vol. 3408 No. 1: 3 Aug. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-08-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3408.1.5
Page range: 59–68
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 3

Brachysomus (Hippomias) samos sp. n. from Greece—first island endemism in the genus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)

Nikolai Yunakov, Zoological Museum, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern NO-0318 Oslo, Norway
Christoph Germann, Natural History Museum of the Burgergemeinde Natur-Museum Luzern, Kasernenplatz 6, CH-6003 Lucerne, Switzerland
Coleoptera North Aegean Islands Samos Island endemism taxonomy new species weevil

Abstract

Brachysomus (Hippomias) samos sp. n. is described from the Oros Ambelos mountains on Samos Island (Greece). Thehygrophilous and detritivorous new species is endemic to a very restricted area. Brachysomus samos is close to B. pelexYunakov, 2006, B. moczarskii Penecke, 1924 and B. armatus Yunakov, 2006 based on characteristics of the median lobeof the aedeagus, and on the conspicuously long apodemes. Brachysomus samos furthermore strongly resembles B. armatus and B. curvimanus Yunakov, 2006 in the characteristic shape of the head capsule and epifrons.

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