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Issue: Vol. 4544 No. 4: 15 Jan. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-01-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.4.8
Page range: 581–588
Abstract views: 66
PDF downloaded: 6

A new genus of Trechini beetles from the Eastern Himalaya (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Podbelskogo 3, St. Petersburg—Pushkin 189620, Russia
All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Podbelskogo 3, St. Petersburg—Pushkin 189620, Russia
University of Rostock, Institute of Biosciences, General and Systematic Zoology, Universitätsplatz 2, D - 18055 Rostock, Germany.
Coleoptera Himalotrechus taxonomy new species India

Abstract

Himalotrechus humeratus gen. n., sp. n. is described from the easternmost portion of the Greater Himalaya in the Arunachal Pradesh State of India. The relationships of this new genus within Trechini are discussed based on the relevant characters in external and genital morphology. Himalotrechus gen. n. is likely to be a member of the Epaphiopsis Complex (Deuve et al., 2016).

 

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