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Issue: Vol. 1895 No. 1: 8 Oct. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-10-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1895.1.6
Page range: 59–65
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Ranomafana from Madagascar (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae: Pilipalpinae)

Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola “Francisco Fernández Yépez”, Facultad de Agronomía–UCV, AP 4579, Maracay 2101–A, Aragua, Venezuela
CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Coleoptera beetles Madagascar Pilipalpinae Pyrochroidae Tenebrionoidea

Abstract

Ranomafana pollocki sp. n. from Tamatave province, Madagascar, is described and illustrated; diverse generic morphological structures are provided; diagnostic features for this species are body colour and shape of accessory lobes in the male genitalia. This genus was known only from one specimen of the type species R. steineri Pollock, 1995.

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