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Issue: Vol. 4067 No. 3: 22 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.3
Page range: 334–344
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 3

On the taxonomy of the Brazilian flea beetle genus Miritius Bechyné & Bechyné (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini: Monoplatina)
with description of two new species

Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e Ambientais, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Caixa Postal 322, 79804-980 Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, 81581-980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, Sala 211, 85770-000 Realeza, Paraná, Brazil.
Coleoptera flea beetles taxonomy redescription Neotropical Region

Abstract

A taxonomic study was performed on the Brazilian genus Miritius Bechyné & Bechyné of Monoplatina, Alticini. Here Miritius and two of its species are redescribed and descriptions for another two new species were provided: Miritius abdominalis Morais & Linzmeier sp. nov. (Mato Grosso, Brazil) and Miritius claudius Morais & Linzmeier sp. nov. (Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil). For the first time characters of the male and female genitalia, illustrations and a key to the Miritius species are presented.

 

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