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Issue: Vol. 2401 No. 1: 17 Mar. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-03-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2401.1.5
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 4

Revision of Metadorodocia Machatschke, 1957, a genus endemic to Madagascar (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Adoretini)

Department of Coleopterology, Laboratory of Insect Systematics, Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab., 1. St. Petersburg, 199034 Russia
Département Systématique et Évolution, UMR7502, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Entomologie, CP 50, 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
Coleoptera Rutelinae Adoretini new species Madagascar

Abstract

The genus Metadorodocia, which is endemic to Madagascar, is revised. A lectotype is designated for its type species, Adoretus vittatus Waterhouse, 1878. A second species of this genus, Metadorodocia frolovi n. sp., is diagnosed from M. vittata and described. Illustrations for both species are provided and their distributions are clarified.

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