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Issue: Vol. 4329 No. 1: 3 Oct. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-10-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.1.6
Page range: 91–95
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Pterostichus neilgaimani sp. nov., a new species of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from relict sacred grove in Eastern Georgia

Ilia State University, Institute of Ecology, Cholokashvili av. 3/5 Tbilisi, 0162, Georgia.
Ilia State University, Institute of Ecology, Cholokashvili av. 3/5 Tbilisi, 0162, Georgia.
Ilia State University, Institute of Ecology, Cholokashvili av. 3/5 Tbilisi, 0162, Georgia.
Ilia State University, Institute of Ecology, Cholokashvili av. 3/5 Tbilisi, 0162, Georgia.
Coleoptera Carabidae

Abstract

A new species of ground beetles (Coleoptea: Carabidae) belonging to the subgenus Aphaonus Reitter, 1887 (genus Pterostichus Bonelli, 1810) is described, based on two specimens collected from the sacred grove of Khevsha (Eastern Georgia).

 

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