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Issue: Vol. 3955 No. 3: 5 May 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-05-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3955.3.9
Page range: 427–434
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new Craspedophorus species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Panagaeini) from the Philippines

Department of Game Management and Wildlife Biology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Prague 6, Czech Republic.
Daugavpils University, Institute of Systematic Biology, Vienibas iela 13-229, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia.
Coleoptera Carabidae Craspedophorus new species Philippines

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Craspedophorus Hope, 1838 from the Philippine Islands namely, C.luzonensis sp. nov. and C. kirschenhoferi sp. nov. are described and their affinities are discussed, illustrated and compared with related taxa. Craspedophorus luzonensis sp. nov., from Luzon, belongs to the “obscurus species group, whereas C. kirschenhoferi sp. nov., from Mindanao, stands isolated in the genus.