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Issue: Vol. 4442 No. 4: 4 Jul. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-07-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.4.1
Page range: 501–522
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New species and records of Ischnosoma Stephens (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Tachyporinae) from Nepal

Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 1176, CZ–165 21 Prague 6 – Suchdol, Czech Republic.
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt-University, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Tachyporinae Mycetoporini Ischnosoma Palaearctic Nepal new species new records

Abstract

More than 540 specimens of the genus Ischnosoma Stephens (Coleptera, Staphylinidae, Tachyporinae) from Nepal are revised. Four new species are described and illustrated: Ischnosoma bhojpur Kocian & Schülke, sp. n., I. hirthei Kocian & Schülke, sp. n., I. jumla Kocian & Schülke, sp. n. and I. schmidti Kocian & Schülke, sp. n. Additional records of previously described species are reported. The distributions of the Nepalese species are mapped. Ischnosoma gratiosum (Cameron, 1932) is recorded from Nepal for the first time. A revised key to the Ischnosoma species of Nepal is presented.     

 

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