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Issue: Vol. 4711 No. 1: 13 Dec. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-12-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.1.9
Page range: 193–200
Abstract views: 67
PDF downloaded: 3

A new troglobitic species of the genus Leptomeson Jeannel, 1924 (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Leptodirini) from the Island of Šolta (middle Dalmatia, Croatia)

Institute of Zoology, University of Belgrade—Faculty of Biology, Studentski Trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Institute of Zoology, University of Belgrade—Faculty of Biology, Studentski Trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Pregrevica 118, 11080 Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia
Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Pregrevica 118, 11080 Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia
Špiljar Speleological Society, Varaždinska 53, 21000 Split, Croatia
Coleoptera Leiodidae Cholevinae Leptodirini

Abstract

Leptomeson Jeannel, 1924, originally treated as a subgenus of Anthroherpon Reitter, 1889 (Jeannel, 1924), was erected to a distinct genus by Guéorguiev (1990). It currently includes 13 endemic taxa (nine species and four subspecies) (Perreau, 2015), of which five species are recently described (Giachino et al., 2011). All Leptomeson taxa are troglobitic, montane or insular, and are distributed in a narrow Dinaric area in the proximity to the Adriatic Sea coast belonging to Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Perreau, 2000; Giachino et al., 2011) (Fig. 1).

 

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