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Issue: Vol. 2689 No. 1: 26 Nov. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-11-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2689.1.2
Page range: 15–26
Abstract views: 38
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A hypogean new species of Trechus Clairville, 1806 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Portugal and considerations about the T. fulvus species group

CESAM (Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar) and Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de La Laguna. 38206 La Laguna. Tenerife. Canary Islands, Spain
Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28871 – Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
CESAM (Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar) and Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de La Laguna. 38206 La Laguna. Tenerife. Canary Islands, Spain
Coleoptera Trechinae T. fulvus-lineage hypogean cave Montejunto Portugal

Abstract

A new hypogean ground beetle species, Trechus tatai n. sp. from the Montejunto karstic massif in Portugal is described. Morphological diagnostic characters of the imago are provided and the new species is included in the Trechus fulvus- group. Comments on the biogeography of hypogean carabid beetles in karstic areas of Portugal and an illustrated key to the males of the T. fulvus-group in the Iberian Peninsula are also included.

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