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Issue: Vol. 3835 No. 4: 14 Jul. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-07-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3835.4.7
Page range: 564–572
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 3

Endogean and cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XIV. Melledobythus bilandzijae, new genus and species of cavernicolous Bythinini (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from the Island Mljet, Croatia

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic.
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic.
Department of Zoology, Croatian Natural History Museum, Croatian Biospeleological Society, Demetrova 1, HR-1000 Zagreb, Hrvatska.
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Pselaphinae Bythinini Melledobythus Croatia taxonomy biospeleology

Abstract

Melledobythus bilandzijae, new cavernicolous genus and species of the tribe Bythinini is described from the island of Mljet, Croatia. A detailed morphological study is presented. The new genus belongs to the phylogenetic lineage of small and anophthalmous Bythinini that lack sutural elytral striae.