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Issue: Vol. 3514 No. 1: 11 Oct. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-10-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3514.1.5
Page range: 79–83
Abstract views: 46
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A new genus and species of Tentyriini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from sand dunes in Namaqualand, South Africa

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany Contributions to Tenebrionidae, no. 103. – For no. 102 see: Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya (Erfurt), vol. 4, 2012
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae Tentyriini taxonomy new genus new species Broomium Archinamibia Archinamaqua dunes Namaqualand South Africa

Abstract

Archinamaqua gen. n. lyleae sp. n. (Pimeliinae Latreille, 1802, Tentyriini Eschscholtz, 1831) is described from the sand dunes of Namaqualand in northwestern South Africa. It is related to the genera Broomium Koch, 1950 and Archinamibia Koch, 1952. All these taxa are wingless and highly adapted nocturnal sand dwellers in dry habitats of the same area in northwestern South Africa and southern Namibia.

References

  1. Koch, C. (1950) The Tenebrionidae of Southern Africa. I. First account of the Tenebrionidae collected on the University of California-Transvaal Museum Expedition, 1948. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 21, 273–367, pls. V–XXII.

    Koch, C. (1952) The Tenebrionidae of Southern Africa. XII. Supplementary notes to preliminary articles nos. I, III, V and VIII. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 22, 79–196, pls. VI–XVI.