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Issue: Vol. 3021 No. 1: 12 Sep. 2011
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2011-09-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3021.1.4
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 63
PDF downloaded: 4

Revision of the Ochthebiinae of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)

Departamento de Biodiversidad y Gestión Ambiental (Zoología), Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad de León, 24071 León, SPAIN
Division of Entomology, Biodiversity Institute, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS 66045, USA
Coleoptera Hydraenidae

Abstract

Ochthebiinae Thomson, 1859 is a subfamily of Hydraenidae represented in the Neotropical region by the genera Ochthebius Leach, 1815, Gymnochthebius d’Orchymont, 1943 and Ochtheosus Perkins, 1997 (only in southern South America, Chile). Neotropical Ochthebiinae were mostly revised by Perkins (1980). Also important are the contributions by Balfour-Browne (1971), Anderson (1983), Perkins (1997), Perkins & Archangelsky (2002), Arce-Pérez & Jäch (2004) and Aguilera et al. (2006).

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