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Issue: Vol. 4132 No. 2: 29 Jun. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-06-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4132.2.7
Page range: 272–274
Abstract views: 58
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new synonymies at the generic level in Neotropical Ptomaphagini (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae)

Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, travessa 14, 101, 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, travessa 14, 101, 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Research Associate, Entomology, Research and Collections Division, Canadian Museum of Nature PO Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, ON, K1P 6P4, Canada
Coleoptera Ptomaphagina Adelopsis Parapaulipalpina Excelsiorella Excelsiorella (Viruana)

Abstract

We here recognize the genus Excelsiorella (s. str.) Salgado, 2008 as a junior synonym of the genus Adelopsis Portevin, 1907, and Viruana Salgado, 2013, a subgenus of Excelsiorella, as a junior synonym of the genus Parapaulipalpina Gnaspini, 1996. As a consequence, we propose the following new combinations: Adelopsis latissima (Salgado, 2008) n. comb. (from Excelsiorella (s. str.)) and Parapaulipalpina tambopata (Salgado, 2013) n. comb. (from Excelsiorella (Viruana)).

 

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