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Issue: Vol. 2214 No. 1: 31 Aug. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-08-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2214.1.3
Page range: 45–61
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 5

A review of the Bembidion (Odontium) aenulum subgroup (Coleoptera: Carabidae), with description of a new species

Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. Address as of September 2009: Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Division of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
Coleoptera Bembidiini DNA rDNA morphology

Abstract

The Bembidion aenulum subgroup of the subgenus Odontium is reviewed. This subgroup, widespread in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, previously has been considered to consist of only one species, Bembidion aenulum Hayward. However, morphological studies coupled with analyses of 28S ribosomal RNA, cytochrome oxidase I, CAD, and wingless genes reveal that eastern members of this group belong to a new species herein named Bembidion paraenulum new species. This species ranges from New Hampshire in the northeast, through Virginia and North Carolina, south to Florida and west to Mississippi. Both species are described and illustrated.

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