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Issue: Vol. 4688 No. 3: 23 Oct. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-10-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4688.3.6
Page range: 399–406
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 5

Description of new species of Pseudamaurops Jeannel, 1948 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Greece and North Macedonia

National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria.
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Natural History Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ-193 00 Praha 9-Horní Počernice, Czech Republic.
Coleoptera Balkan Peninsula Amauropini new species endogean

Abstract

Two new species of Pseudamaurops Jeannel, 1948 are described, P. hristovskii sp. n. from North Macedonia and P. tymficus sp. n. from Greece. Redescriptions of P. albanicus (Apfelbeck, 1907) and P. muellerianus (Ravasini, 1923) are provided, and an identification key for the genus is provided.

 

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