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Published: 2021-06-11
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New species and records of Angolan Limnichidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea)

Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom. National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, Wild Bird Trust, Parktown 2193, South Africa.
Coleoptera Limnichidae new species new country record taxonomy faunistics Angola

Abstract

Two new species of Limnichidae, Simplocarina angolensis Matsumoto sp. nov. and Byrrhinus angolensis Matsumoto sp. nov. are described. Simplocarina curticollis Pic, 1922 is reported as a new genus and species for the fauna of Angola.

 

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