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Issue: Vol. 5351 No. 5: 29 Sept. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-09-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.5.6
Page range: 581-589
Abstract views: 597
PDF downloaded: 27

Taxonomic study of the Japanese endemic genus Yukikoa M. Satô (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) with descriptions of two new species

The University of Tokyo; Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences; Laboratory of Forest Zoology; Yayoi 1–1–1; Bunkyo-ku; Tokyo 113–8657; Japan
The University of Tokyo; Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences; Laboratory of Forest Zoology; Yayoi 1–1–1; Bunkyo-ku; Tokyo 113–8657; Japan
Coleoptera Cantharinae Cantharini East Asia taxonomy key to species distribution map

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Yukikoa M. Satô, 1976 are described from Honshu, Japan: Y. mashimai sp. nov. from Niigata Prefecture and Y. nishimotoi sp. nov. from Fukui Prefecture. A revised key to the described species of Yukikoa and a distribution map are provided.

 

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