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Issue: Vol. 4656 No. 3: 15 Aug. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-08-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4656.3.14
Page range: 596–600
Abstract views: 66
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A new species of Tychus Leach, 1817 from Lebanon (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, section Animal Biology, University of Catania, Via Androne 81 95124—Catania, Italy
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, section Animal Biology, University of Catania, Via Androne 81 95124—Catania, Italy
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, section Animal Biology, University of Catania, Via Androne 81 95124—Catania, Italy
Coleoptera. Taxonomy Goniaceritae Tychini Tychus meggiolaroi sp. n.

Abstract

Tychus meggiolaroi sp. n. from Lebanon is described and illustrated. It belongs to the Tychus cilicicus species group (Sabella & Kurbatov 2002) and can be readily distinguished from related taxa by the different structure of the aedeagus and morphological features of antennae.

 

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