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Issue: Vol. 5575 No. 1: 22 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5575.1.8
Page range: 167-172
Abstract views: 605
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The second species of the enigmatic genus Microblattellus Ferrer, 2006 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) from Cambodia: A possibility of termitophily in the genus

The Kyushu University Museum; Hakozaki 6-10-1; Higashi-ku; Fukuoka; 812-8581 Japan
The Kyushu University Museum; Hakozaki 6-10-1; Higashi-ku; Fukuoka; 812-8581 Japan
Forest-Wildlife Research and Development Institute; Forestry Administration; 40 Preah Norodom Boulevard; Phnom Penh; Cambodia
Entomological Laboratory; Faculty of Agriculture; Ehime University; Tarumi 3–5–7; Matsuyama; 790–8566 Japan
Coleoptera Falsocossyphini fungus garden Macrotermes systematic position termite

Abstract

The second species of the enigmatic tenebrionid genus Microblattellus Ferrer, 2006, Microblattellus kakizoei sp. nov., is described from Cambodia. The type specimen was collected from a nest of the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes gilvus (Hagen, 1858). Although the genus is currently placed in the tribe Falsocossyphini, its assignment is highly doubtful, and its true systematic position remains uncertain.

 

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