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Issue: Vol. 4462 No. 3: 28 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.3.6
Page range: 404–414
Abstract views: 66
PDF downloaded: 5

Two new troglobitic species of Oxarthrius Reitter (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from Brazil

Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Cuiabá, MT. Brazil.
VALE—Avenida Dr. Marco Paulo Simon Jardim 3580—Mina de Águas Claras—Nova Lima—Minas Gerais, Brazil
Laboratório de Ecologia Subterrânea, Setor de Zoologia, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Pselaphinae taxonomy Oxarthrius new species Brazil

Abstract

Two new species, Oxarthrius inexpectatus and Oxarthrius aurora, are described from caves in Minas Gerais and Tocantins states in Brazil, respectively. The major diagnostic features are illustrated and a key to the known species from Brazil is given.

 

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