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Issue: Vol. 5443 No. 1: 19 Apr. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-04-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5443.1.5
Page range: 105-115
Abstract views: 97
PDF downloaded: 4

Description of a new species of Bibrax Fletcher from Colombia with an updated diagnosis and key to species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

Instituto Tecnológico VALE. R. Boaventura da Silva 955; Nazaré; 66055-090 Belém; PA. Brazil; Departamento de Entomología; Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Av. Arenales 1256; Jesús María; Lima 14; Peru
Universidade de Brasília; Faculdade de Tecnologia; Departamento de Engenharia Florestal; Doutorado em Ciências Florestais; Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro; Asa Norte; Brasília-DF; CEP 70910-900. Brazil; Grupo de Investigación en Tecnología y Ambiente; Corporación Universitaria Autónoma del Cauca; Popayán; Cauca; Colombia
Departamento de Biología; Facultad de Ciencias Naturales; Exactas y de la Educación; Grupo de Estudios Ambientales; Universidad del Cauca; Popayán; Colombia
Universidade Federal do Pará; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas; Laboratório de Invertebrados; Belém; Pará; Brazil
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Pselaphinae taxonomy Bibrax new species Colombia

Abstract

Bibrax popeye Asenjo, Concha-Lozada, Gallego-Ropero & Gouvea, sp. nov., of the Neotropical Pselaphinae of the tribe Metopiasini, is described from the department of Cauca in southeastern Colombia. Diagnosis is provided for the genus and new species; with illustrations of the major diagnosis features, a key to the known species, and a distribution map.

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