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Issue: Vol. 1154 No. 1: 20 Mar. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-03-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1154.1.2
Page range: 27–33
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 5

Description of the male of the rare Madagascan species Pseudorphnus hiboni with notes on the genus Pseudorphnus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae)

Laboratory of Insect Systematics, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab., 1, 199034 Sankt-Petersburg, Russia
UMR 602, Département Systématique et Évolution, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Entomologie, CP 50, 45 rue Buffon, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
Coleoptera Scarabaeidae Orphninae Pseudorphnus distribution Madagascar

Abstract

A male of Pseudorphnus hiboni Paulian is described from material recently collected in Ranomafana National Park (eastern Madagascar). The species is compared with the two other known species of the genus. Notes on biology and distribution are given.

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