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Issue: Vol. 5424 No. 4: 15 Mar. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-03-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5424.4.7
Page range: 483-489
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 5

Two new species of the genus Orphnebius Motschulsky, 1858 from Mindanao, Philippines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini)

Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies; Daugavpils University; Vienibas 13; Daugavpils; LV-5401; Latvia
Tropical Genomics Laboratory—URESCOM; Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Davao Oriental State University; Mati City; 8200; Philippines; National Museum of Natural History; Ermita; 1000 Philippines
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Aleocharinae Lomechusini Orphnebius taxonomy new species Philippines

Abstract

Two new species of aleocharine genus Orphnebius Motschulsky, 1858 (Lomechusini: Myrmedoniina) from southeastern Mindanao are described and illustrated: O. (Deroleptus) barsevskisi Shavrin, sp. n. (Candalaga Mts.) and O. (Deroleptus) poncei Shavrin, sp. n. (Davao Oriental). The distributional map for all species of the genus known from Mindanao is also provided.

 

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