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Issue: Vol. 4550 No. 2: 24 Jan. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-01-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.2.10
Page range: 295–300
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 4

Addition to the known long-horned beetle fauna of the Bolivian Andes: A new lycid-like species of Mimolaia Bates, 1885 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Caliini)

Colección Boliviana de Fauna. La Paz, Bolivia. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9930-9638.
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. ORCID: http:// orcid.org/0000-0001-7128-1418.
Coleoptera Bolivia mimicry South America taxonomy Yungas forest

Abstract

Mimolaia batesi sp. nov. from Bolivian Yungas forest is described and illustrated. The new species likely displays Batesian mimicry associated with slender Lycidae species having black elytra and orange/reddish pronotum laterally.

 

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