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Issue: Vol. 4200 No. 2: 29 Nov. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-11-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.2.5
Page range: 321–323
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Description of a new species of Dascillus Latreille from Sichuan, China Coleoptera: Dascillidae) 

Institute of Entomology, Agricultural College, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434025, China
Institute of Entomology, Agricultural College, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434025, China
Agricultural College, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434025, China
Coleoptera Dascillidae

Abstract

Dascillidae are a small and rarely studied family that includes nine currently recognized genera (Lawrence 2005; Ivie & Barclay 2011; Jin et al. 2013) and about 80 described species divided into two poorly defined subfamilies—a free-living Dascillinae and variously morphologically modified Karumiinae, some of which are apparently associated with subterranean termites. Dascillinae inhabit mostly forested areas of the Northern Hemisphere and Australia (Lawrence 2005).

 

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