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Issue: Vol. 4403 No. 3: 5 Apr. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-04-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.10
Page range: 578–585
Abstract views: 73
PDF downloaded: 4

Holcophloeus caldarai (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Holcorhinini) a new weevil species from Morocco

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic.
Střelecká 459, CZ-500 02 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
Department of Environmental Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, SK-842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia.
Coleoptera Curculionidae Entiminae Holcorhinini Holcophloeus taxonomy new species Morocco

Abstract

Holcophloeus caldarai sp. n. is described as a fifth species of the genus from central Morocco. The new species differs from all other species of the genus and, generally the entire tribe, by unique irregularly star-shaped appressed scales.

 

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