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Issue: Vol. 5566 No. 2: 8 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5566.2.9
Page range: 391-396
Abstract views: 230
PDF downloaded: 9

Two new species of Thlaspidula Spaeth, 1901 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) from Sulawesi

Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense; Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution; National Research and Innovation Agency; Cibinong; Bogor; Indonesia
Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy; University of Wrocław; Przybyszewskiego 65; 51-148 Wrocław; Poland
Coleoptera New species tortoise beetles key to species Thlaspidula Indonesia

Abstract

Two new for science species of the genus Thlaspidula Spaeth, 1901 are described and illustrated from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Thlaspidula gandangdewata, sp. nov. is described based on specimens collected from Mount Gandangdewata whereas Thlaspidula sarinoi, sp. nov. on material from Mount Torompupu. Photographs of the habitus and illustrations of diagnostic characters are presented. Key to all members of the genus Thlaspidula is given.

 

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