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Issue: Vol. 4646 No. 1: 23 Jul. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4646.1.3
Page range: 55–66
Abstract views: 64
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Two new Oxytrechus species from Ecuadorian páramo (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae)

Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Sorbonne-Université, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Bâtiment A, 7, Quai Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris, France
105, Avenue du Mont Gaillard, 76620 Le Havre, France
Coleoptera Trechini new species páramo Ecuador Neotropical fauna endemism

Abstract

Description and illustration of two new Oxytrechus species from the páramos of the northern Ecuadorian Andes. O. chioriae n. sp. is distributed at high altitude on the Chimborazo volcano on the Occidental Cordillera; O. cayambeensis n. sp. is located on the Oriental Cordillera and colonizes the Cayambe volcano. The two species are compared to other Ecuadorian species and some considerations about the distribution pattern of South-American species of Oxytrechus are proposed.

 

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