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Issue: Vol. 3964 No. 2: 2 Jun. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-06-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.2.8
Page range: 288–293
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 3

Description of a new species of Bothinodroctonus Schedl, 1969 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) from Africa

Department of Forest Protection, Forestry and Game Management Research Institute Jíloviště - Strnady, CZ 156 04 Praha 5 - Zbraslav, Czech Republic.
Department of Bioinformatics and Genomic Research, Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University, Institutsky per., 5, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia Department of Biochemistry, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Bark beetles Polygraphini Bothinodroctonus bicinctus taxonomy Afrotropical region Gambia Kenya

Abstract

A new species of Bothinodroctonus in the tribe Polygraphini is described from Gambia and Kenya. This is the first representative of the genus in Afrotropical region. A holotype based description contains also the intraspecific variety of the newly described species based on available specimens and differential diagnoses to species within the genus.