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Issue: Vol. 1972 No. 1: 7 Jan. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-01-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1972.1.2
Page range: 20–34
Abstract views: 66
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Orthomus Chaudoir, 1838 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Madeira island (Macaronesia) and notes on related species

Centro de Biologia Ambiental/Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, R. Ernesto de Vasconcelos, C2, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade dos Açores, Dep. Ciências Agrárias, CITA-A (Azorean Biodiversity Group), Terra–Chã, 9700–851 Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Açores, Portugal
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas, Lab. Ecologia Evolutiva de Herbívoros de Dossel/DECBI, Campus Morro do Cruzeiro, 35400–000, Ouro Preto, MG, Brasil
GESPEA Grupo de Estudo do Património Espeleológico dos Açores. Edifício Matos Souto, Piedade, 9930 Lajes do Pico, Pico, Açores, Portugal
Centro de Biologia Ambiental/Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, R. Ernesto de Vasconcelos, C2, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
GESPEA Grupo de Estudo do Património Espeleológico dos Açores. Edifício Matos Souto, Piedade, 9930 Lajes do Pico, Pico, Açores, Portugal
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas, Lab. Ecologia Evolutiva de Herbívoros de Dossel/DECBI, Campus Morro do Cruzeiro, 35400–000, Ouro Preto, MG, Brasil
Universidade dos Açores, Dep. Ciências Agrárias, CITA-A (Azorean Biodiversity Group), Terra–Chã, 9700–851 Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Açores, Portugal
Coleoptera Carabidae Orthomus Nesorthomus new species Madeira

Abstract

The present study describes a new ground-beetle species (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Madeira island (type localities: FANAL and RIBEIRO BONITO), Orthomus (Nesorthomus) susanae Serrano & Borges, n. sp. Adults were sampled by means of pitfall traps. This work provides diagnostic characters, in particular the structure of male genitalia, and the distribution of this new species. Affinities to putative relatives and a key for the identification of males of the eight Orthomus (Nesorthomus) species of the Madeira island are also given.

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