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Issue: Vol. 3405 No. 1: 1 Aug. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-08-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3405.1.3
Page range: 64–68
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 4

Two new species of Emmallodera Blanchard, 1842 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from western Argentina

Laboratorio de Entomología, Dpto. de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
CONICET, Laboratorio de Entomología, Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas (IADIZA, CCT CONICET Mendoza), Casilla de correo 507, 5500 Mendoza, Argentina
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae Scotobiini Emmallodera new species

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Emmallodera Blanchard (Tenebrioninae: Scotobiini) from western Argentina are described,Emmallodera rugosa sp. nov. from the Patagonian steppe and Emmallodera telteca sp. nov. from lowlands in the Men-doza province. Distributional data, habitat records, and photographs of habitus and pronota for these two new species are included, with comparisons to other known species of the genus.

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