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Issue: Vol. 5474 No. 2: 26 Jun. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-06-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.2.6
Page range: 181-191
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First record of the genus Tetradonia Wasmann, 1894 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) in Colombia, with description of two new species

Laboratorio de Entomología; Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Aridas (IADIZA; CCT CONICET; Mendoza); Casilla de Correo 507; 5500 Mendoza; Argentina. Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Córdoba; Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Universidad Nacional de Cuyo; Mendoza; Argentina
Laboratorio de Entomología; Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Aridas (IADIZA; CCT CONICET; Mendoza); Casilla de Correo 507; 5500 Mendoza; Argentina. Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Córdoba; Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Universidad Nacional de Cuyo; Mendoza; Argentina
Coleoptera Rove beetle false Lomechusini Neotropics Athetini morphology

Abstract

This paper describes and illustrates two new species of the genus Tetradonia Wasmann, 1894 (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), discovered in the Eastern Andes of Colombia: T. vonbeerensis Gualdrón-Diaz & Chani-Posse sp. n. and T. ramirezi Gualdrón-Diaz & Chani-Posse sp. n. This report marks the first documented presence of the genus in Colombia. Furthermore, our findings contribute to an increased understanding of Neotropical Tetradonia species, bringing the total known species count to forty-one.

 

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