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Issue: Vol. 65 No. 2: 28 May 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-05-28
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2025.65.2.1
Page range: 33-56
Abstract views: 53
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Two new genera and species of subterranean Leptodirine beetles from northern Turkey (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Leptodirini)

Notranjska museum Postojna, Kolodvorska cesta 3, SI-6230 Postojna, Slovenia
Záhradná 61A, SK-900 91 Limbach
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Arts, Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Erzincan, TR-24002, Turkey
subterranean beetles taxonomy Kuntiella Kashifiella Anatolia

Abstract

Two new genera of subterranean Leptodirini beetles from isolated karst regions in northern Anatolia, Turkey: Kuntiella gen. nov. (Type species: Kuntiella karabuki sp. nov.) and Kashifiella gen. nov. (Type species: Kashifiella erdemi sp. nov.), are described, illustrated, and compared with recently recognised Turkish genera attributed to the group of Hittitia series. Detailed analyses of external and internal morphological characters highlight distinguishing features within the Hittitia Leptodirini beetle group, enhancing our understanding of its diversity. The study also provides ecological insights, type locality descriptions, and tools for identification, including a key, catalogue, and distribution map for Turkish Leptodirini genera with four-segmented male protarsi.

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