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Issue: Vol. 4388 No. 2: 2 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.2.8
Page range: 265–274
Abstract views: 61
PDF downloaded: 3

Description of females of Chilarboreus Ruta, 2011 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae)

Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland.
Ehime University Museum, Bunkyo 3, Matsuyama, 790-8577 Japan.
Coleoptera marsh beetles Chile excitators flightlessness

Abstract

Chilarboreus is a small genus comprising three species occurring in Nothofagus forests of Chile. The female of a single species, Chilarboreus fossulatus, was described in the original description. In the present paper we provide descriptions of females of the remaining two species for the first time. Morphology of females supports the previous division of Chilarboreus into two subgenera. Pronotal excitators are described and illustrated for the first time in Scirtidae.

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