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Issue: Vol. 5437 No. 4: 16 Apr. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-04-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.4.5
Page range: 523-536
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Additions to the taxonomy of the genus Ophionea Klug, 1821 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Lebiinae) and a new species from India

Entomology Research Lab; P.G. & Research Department of Zoology; College Research Centre Affiliated to University of Calicut; St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous) Devagiri; Kozhikode; Kerala 673008; India
Department of Zoology; University of Calicut; Malappuram; Kerala; India
Coleoptera ground beetles first report Odacanthini South India

Abstract

A new ground beetle species Ophionea vvrei sp. nov. is described from South India, with revised key to the species of the genus Ophionea, revised descriptions of O. bhamoensis bhamoensis (Bates, 1892) and O. interstitialis Schmidt-Göbel, 1846, first report of Ophionea ceylonica (Baehr, 1996) from Indian mainland and designation of the lectotype of O. indica (Thunberg, 1784).

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