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Issue: Vol. 2117 No. 1: 25 May. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-05-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2117.1.6
Page range: 56–64
Abstract views: 58
PDF downloaded: 3

Cis pickeri sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Ciidae) from Southern Africa

Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-000 Viçosa MG, Brazil
Department of Zoology, Biological Faculty, Kiev National University, vul. Vodovymirs'ka 64 UA-01033 Kyiv, Ukraine
Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159, 01109 Dresden, Germany
Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159, 01109 Dresden, Germany
Coleoptera Tenebrionoidea Ciini Ciidae Western Cape Province

Abstract

A new species of ciid beetle from southwestern South Africa is described. Images of the habitus, male genitalia and other characters of the external morphology are provided. The observed variations of male secondary sexual characters are briefly discussed. The similarities of external morphological characters of Cis pickeri sp. nov. to other species of Cis Latreille are discussed, and the new species is tentatively included in the bilamellatus species group.

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