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Issue: Vol. 3905 No. 2: 12 Jan. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-01-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.2.9
Page range: 283–292
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 2

A contribution to knowledge of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from Kazakhstan with description of one new species

Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21, Prague 6 – Suchdol, Czech Republic.
Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21, Prague 6 – Suchdol, Czech Republic.
taxonomy new species faunistics tugai forest window trap Coleoptera Dermestidae Ctesias Almaty region Kazakhstan

Abstract

Research on skin beetles of tugai forests with use of passive window traps was performed in Almaty region in Kazakhstan in 2013. Ctesias (Decemctesias) yuliyae sp. nov. is described, illustrated, and compared with similar species of the genus Ctesias subgenus Decemctesias Háva, 2004. The new species differs by the structure of antennae and male genitalia. Eighteen other dermestid species from Kazakhstan were also recorded in this study.