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Issue: Vol. 3626 No. 4: 15 Mar. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-03-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3626.4.10
Page range: 569–575
Abstract views: 40
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A second species of the genus Helibatus Mulsant & Rey, 1859 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrina)

Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warsaw, Poland
Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warsaw, Poland
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae Opatrina Helibatus entomology taxonomy Helibatus banaszkiewiczae sp. nov. South Africa

Abstract

The genus Helibatus consists of two species: H. morio Mulsant & Rey, 1859 and newly described H. banaszkiewiczae sp. nov. The species differ from each other in the structure of the metaventral process. The genus is distributed inSouthern Africa – a distribution map for the two known species is provided.

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