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Issue: Vol. 395 No. 1: 23 Dec. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-12-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.395.1.1
Page range: 1–7
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 9

The first record of Ennearthron Mellié, 1847 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Ciidae) in the Southern Hemisphere, with the description of a distinctive new species

Departamento de Biologia Animal, Setor de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Coleoptera Neotropical Brazil Ciidae Ciinae Ciini beetle mycetobiont

Abstract

This paper presents the description of Ennearthron victori sp. nov. In contrast to all known species of this genus, E. victori is the first one occurring in the Southern Hemisphere (Neotropical Region, Brazil, Minas Gerais and São Paulo States) and, the only one in which males lack a fovea on the first ventrite.

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