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Issue: Vol. 4205 No. 4: 8 Dec. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-12-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.7
Page range: 386–394
Abstract views: 98
PDF downloaded: 2

New species of Zenoria Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from Brazil and Peru

Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19030, 81581–980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
La Reina, Santiago, Chile. Email: willogonzalez@yahoo.com, Website: www.coccinellidae.cl.
Coleoptera taxonomy Ortaliini Neotropical South America

Abstract

Four new species of Zenoria Mulsant, 1850 are described: Zenoria limitrophi sp. nov. from Brazil; and Z. westerduijni sp. nov., Z. carbo sp. nov., and Z. miroi sp. nov. from Peru. Diagnostic characters are illustrated and relationships with previously described species are discussed.

 

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