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Issue: Vol. 2423 No. 1: 12 Apr. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-04-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2423.1.2
Page range: 25–43
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 4

A review of Rhynchortalia Crotch (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Ortaliinae)

National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects, PB No 2491, HA Farm post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India
CSIRO Entomology, Black Mountain Laboratories, Canberra ACT
Coleoptera Rhynchortalia Coccinellidae revision new species key to species

Abstract

The endemic Australasian genus Rhynchortalia Crotch (1874) is reviewed. Twelve species are described, keyed and illustrated, including the type species, R. insueta Crotch, and eleven new species (Rhynchortalia australis, R. viridis, R. wau, R. papuana, R. iongai, R. purpurea, R. similis, R. riedeli, R. anupama, R. iba, and R. moresby, spp. n.).

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