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Issue: Vol. 5178 No. 3: 26 Aug. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-08-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5178.3.6
Page range: 278-284
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The Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) of the Philippines. Part 2. Two new species of the genus Gauromaia Pascoe, 1866 (Cnodalonini) from Mindanao Island

Coleoptera Research Center, Institute for Biodiversity and Environment, University of Mindanao, Davao City, Philippines.
Coleoptera Research Center, Institute for Biodiversity and Environment, University of Mindanao, Davao City, Philippines.
World Biodiversity Association Onlus c/o Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 9, 37129 Verona, Italy.
Coleoptera beetles biodiversity darkling beetles taxonomy Oriental realm Stenochiinae

Abstract

In the present contribution two new species of the genus Gauromaia (Tenebrionidae: Cnodalonini), namely G. ruffordi sp. nov. and G. kitangladensis sp. nov. from the island of Mindanao (Philippines) are described and illustrated.

 

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