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Issue: Vol. 5418 No. 3: 29 Feb. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-02-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5418.3.4
Page range: 255-267
Abstract views: 20
PDF downloaded: 13

A new species of the genus Embia Latreille, 1825 (Insecta, Embioptera) from the Madonie Regional Natural Park (Sicily, Italy)

Fondazione Edmund Mach di San Michele all’Adige—Centro Trasferimento Tecnologico; Via E. Mach; 1; 38098 Trento; Italy; World Biodiversity Association onlus; c/o Museo Civico di Storia naturale; Lungadige Porta Vittoria; 9 37129 Verona; Italy
Embioptera Embia tyrrhenica taxonomy Mediterranean endemism

Abstract

Embia minapalumboi n. sp., a new species of the genus Embia Latreille, 1925, was collected during an excursion in the Madonie Regional Natural Park that took place at the conclusion of the XXVII Italian National Congress of Entomology celebrated in Palermo from 12 to 16 June 2023. In the location of discovery, at an elevation of just under 1400 m and therefore unusual for European Embioptera, the new species was found to be very rare and for this reason most of the few juvenile specimens found were kept in breeding by the author. The new species was compared with all 36 species known to date for the genus and in particular with the 21 species from the Mediterranean area and the 8 known from Europe. The author also presents the general distribution of all species of the genus. Embia tyrrhenica, Stefani, 1953 is also reported for the Madonie and reconfirmed for Sicily.

 

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