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Issue: Vol. 2760 No. 1: 8 Feb. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-02-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2760.1.3
Page range: 29–38
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 3

Molecular and morphological analyses confirm two new species of the Hydraena emarginata–saga clade (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae) from Spain and France

Sapienza Rome University, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies ”C. Darwin“, via A. Borelli 50, I–00161 Rome, Italy
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria
Sapienza Rome University, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies ”C. Darwin“, via A. Borelli 50, I–00161 Rome, Italy
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC–UPF), Barcelona, Spain
Coleoptera Hydraena ”Haenydra“ new species Western Europe mtDNA

Abstract

Using morphological and molecular analyses, the existence of two undescribed species, H. diazi from north–eastern Spain and French Pyrenees, and H. fosterorum from north–central Spain is confirmed. These species are members of a European endemic complex of hydraenid beetles, the Hydraena emarginata–saga clade, belonging to the ”Haenydra“ lineage. The two new species are described and the geographic range of the widespread H. saga is revised.

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