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Issue: Vol. 4612 No. 2: 29 May 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-05-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4612.2.9
Page range: 267–274
Abstract views: 81
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Cornucistela Campbell, 1980 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae: Gonoderina) from Iran

Nepasické náměstí 796, CZ-190 14 Prague 9 - Klánovice, Czech Republic.
Caspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Russian Academy of Sciences, M. Gadzhiev str., 45, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, 367000, Russia. Dagestan State University, M. Gadzhiev str. 43a, Makhachkala, 367000, Russia
Coleoptera taxonomy darkling beetles comb-clawed beetles Palaearctic Region Iran

Abstract

A second species of the previously monotypic genus Cornucistela (C. anichtchenkoi sp. nov.) is described, illustrated and compared with C. serrata Campbell, 1980 (type species). It is a first record of the genus in Iran (South Khorasan Province).

 

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