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Issue: Vol. 4277 No. 3: 19 Jun. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-06-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.3.9
Page range: 443–450
Abstract views: 66
PDF downloaded: 4

Caledomus gen. nov., a new cillaeine genus (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) from New Caledonia and taxonomic notes

Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab., 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia CNRS UMR 7205, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CP 50, Entomologie, 45, Rue Buffon, F-75005, Paris, France
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab., 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, shosse Podbelskogo, 3, St. Petersburg–Pushkin 196608, Russia
Coleoptera sap beetles Cillaeinae new species replacement of generic name

Abstract

Caledomus extraordinarius gen. et sp. nov. of the subfamily Cillaeinae is described from New Caledonia (Tinchialit). This new genus is a member of the Adocimus-complex of genera. The new name Brittonoma nom. nov. is proposed for the junior homonym Brittonema Kirejtshuk, 2011, non Thorne, 1967.

 

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