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Issue: Vol. 4941 No. 2: 8 Mar. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-03-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.2.3
Page range: 193–216
Abstract views: 93
PDF downloaded: 15

The Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands. IV. Revision of the genus Baraxina Raffray, 1896

Department of Entomology, National Museum, Natural History Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ-193 00 Praha 9 - Horní Počernice, The Czech Republic.
Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Wrocław, Poland.
Coleoptera Goniaceritae Brachyglutini Brachyglutina taxonomy new species

Abstract

The endemic New Caledonian Brachyglutini genus Baraxina is revised. Seventeen species are recognized, of which sixteen are newly described: B. francoisi Raffray, 1886; B. amieuana sp. n., B. grimbacheri sp. n., B. kanakorum sp. n., B. rutai sp. n., B. aoupinica sp. n., B. asymmetrica sp. n., B. burwelli sp. n., B. dzumacana sp. n., B. jenisi sp. n., B. koghisiana sp. n., B. lescheni sp. n., B. monteithi sp. n., B. parakoghisiana sp. n., B. pecki sp. n., B. poroana sp. n., and B. wanati sp. n.

 

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