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Issue: Vol. 4337 No. 1: 17 Oct. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-10-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4337.1.9
Page range: 146–150
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 4

Mimogonellus dreybrodti sp. n., a new cave-inhabiting Osoriinae from Laos (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
Hesse Federation for Cave and Karst Research, Königswarter Str. 2a, 36039 Fulda, Germany
Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Abstract

A new osoriine species, Mimogonellus dreybrodti Yin & Steiner, sp. n., collected from a cave in Houaphanh Province, Laos, is described and illustrated. This represents the third Mimogonellus species in Asia, and the first in the genus known to inhabit a cave environment.

 

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