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Issue: Vol. 5419 No. 3: 7 Mar. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-03-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5419.3.8
Page range: 439-445
Abstract views: 16
PDF downloaded: 7

A new Brazilian species of the genus Philothalpus Kraatz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Laboratório de Biodiversidade; Ecologia e Conservação de Ecossistemas Amazônicos; Universidade do Estado do Amazonas; Centro de Estudos Superiores de Itacoatiara; 69100-000 Itacoatiara; Amazonas; Brazil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia para Recursos Amazônicos; Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia; Universidade Federal do Amazonas; 69100-000 Itacoatiara; Amazonas; Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia para Recursos Amazônicos; Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia; Universidade Federal do Amazonas; 69100-000 Itacoatiara; Amazonas; Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia para Recursos Amazônicos; Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia; Universidade Federal do Amazonas; 69100-000 Itacoatiara; Amazonas; Brazil
Instituto Tecnológico VALE. R. Boaventura da Silva 955; Nazaré; 66055-090 Belém; PA. Brazil; Departamento de Entomología; Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Av. Arenales 1256; Jesús María; Lima 14; Perú
Coleoptera Brazil Amazon New species Philothalpina Taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of the genus Philothalpus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini: Philothalpina), Philothalpus precious Klemann-Junior, Barroso, Pereira & Asenjo, sp. nov., is described from Amazonas state, northern Brazil. Major diagnostic features are illustrated and the species is included in the key to Philothalpus species.

 

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