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Issue: Vol. 4175 No. 2: 13 Oct. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-10-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.2.4
Page range: 167–179
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Redescriptions and lectotype designations for two neotropical Elminae (Coleoptera: Elmidae) 

Museo di Storia Naturale, Sezione di Zoologia “La Specola”, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via Romana 17, I – 50125 Firenze, Italy.
Museo di Storia Naturale, Sezione di Zoologia “La Specola”, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via Romana 17, I – 50125 Firenze, Italy.
Coleoptera South America Elmidae Elminae Macrelmis germaini Cylloepus reitteri redescriptions lectotype designations

Abstract

Two Elminae, Macrelmis germaini (Grouvelle, 1896) and Cylloepus reitteri Grouvelle, 1889 from Grouvelle’s Collection in the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris are reviewed, and their lectotypes designated. Habitus photographs and illustrations of aedeagi for both species are also included.

 

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