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Issue: Vol. 2415 No. 1: 31 Mar. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-03-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2415.1.3
Page range: 33–42
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 3

Four new species of Desmopachria Babington (Insecta, Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from the Amazon river floodplain

Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, 21941-971, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas - Zoologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, 21941-971, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Coleoptera Neotropics Dytiscidae Brazil new species new records

Abstract

Four new species of Desmopachria from the Amazon river floodplain (várzea) are described and illustrated, D. manus sp. nov., D. varzeana sp. nov., D. cavia sp. nov. and D. nigrocapitata sp. nov., together with new distributional records of D. balionata Miller, D. draco Miller, D. subnotata Sharp and D. striola Zimmermann for Amazonas and Pará states in Brazil.

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