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Issue: Vol. 1630 No. 1: 5 Nov. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-11-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1630.1.1
Page range: 1–21
Abstract views: 46
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Notes on tiger beetles from Guinea-Bissau, with description of a new species of Cylindera Westwood (Insecta: Coleoptera, Cicindelidae)

Centro de Biologia Ambiental/Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Ed. C2, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa - Portugal
Insecta Guinea-Bissau Cicindelidae Biodiversity Cylindera Westwood

Abstract

The biodiversity of tiger beetles collected in Guinea-Bissau during an Entomological Mission to this African country is given. Twenty species were identified, and their distribution in Guinea-Bissau is mapped. A new species is described: Cylindera (Ifasina) gulbenkiana Serrano, n. sp. (GUINEA-BISSAU, TOMBALI, Guilege). This is the first new tiger beetle species described from this country in the last 158 years. A key to the known species of Cylindera (Ifasina) of WestAfrica is given. Adults of tiger beetles were found by direct observation and by light trapping. An up-date of the tiger beetle species recorded for Guinea-Bissau gives a total of 35 species.

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