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Issue: Vol. 4999 No. 5: 14 July 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-07-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.5.3
Page range: 439-455
Abstract views: 602
PDF downloaded: 26

Seven new species of the genus Phaedis Pascoe, 1866 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Cnodalonini) from Borneo

World Biodiversity Association Onlus c/o Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 9, 37129 Verona, Italy. Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padova, viale dell’Università 16, Legnaro, 35020 Padova, Italy.
Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University Tarumi 3-5-7, Matsuyama, 790-8566 Japan.
Asia biodiversity darkling beetles species discovery Tenebrionoidea wildlife Coleoptera

Abstract

Seven new species of the genus Phaedis (Tenebrionidae: Cnodalonini) from Borneo are described, of which three new species belong to the Phaedeucyrtus species-group and four new ones belong to the nominotypical species-group: Phaedis amabilis sp. nov., P. choui sp. nov., P. dilatitarsalis sp. nov., P. fusivittatus sp. nov., P. minusculus sp. nov., P. nagaii sp. nov., and P. tenuifasciatus sp. nov.

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