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Issue: Vol. 4175 No. 5: 18 Oct. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-10-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.5.6
Page range: 480–486
Abstract views: 77
PDF downloaded: 2

New species of Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from the Philippines

Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan.
Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Coleoptera Cnodalonini taxonomy Asia Luzon Mindoro

Abstract

In the present paper Androsus philippinus sp. nov. from Mt. Halcon (Mindoro), Euhemicera smeraldina sp. nov. from Aurora (Luzon) and Thesilea cyaneothorax sp. nov. from Nueva Viscaya (Luzon) are described, diagnosed and illustrated. Thesilea varicolor var. unicolor Kulzer 1951 is recognised as valid subspecies.

 

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