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Issue: Vol. 3613 No. 5: 13 Feb. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-02-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.5.5
Page range: 493–500
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of Tarphius Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera: Zopheridae) from North Africa and notes on an Iberian species

Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa (DZA), Centro de Biologia Ambiental, and Portuguese Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability (PEERS), R. Ernesto de Vasconcelos, Ed. C2, 3º Piso, Campo Grande, P-1749-016 Lisboa
Azorean Biodiversity Group (GBA, CITA-A) and Portuguese Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability (PEERS), Universidade dos Açores, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Rua Capitão João d`Ávila, São Pedro, 9700-042 Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Portugal Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Azorean Biodiversity Group (GBA, CITA-A) and Portuguese Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability (PEERS), Universidade dos Açores, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Rua Capitão João d`Ávila, São Pedro, 9700-042 Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Portugal
Coleoptera Tarphius taxonomy new species Morocco additional records Iberian Peninsula

Abstract

A new species of Tarphius Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera: Zopheridae, Solier, 1834) is described from Morocco. Tarphius isabelae n. sp. is the fifth Tarphius species recorded in North Africa. In addition, we present some information on the Ibe-rian species, Tarphius kiesenwetteri Heyden, 1870.

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