Notes on tiger beetles from Guinea-Bissau, with description of a new species of Cylindera Westwood (Insecta: Coleoptera, Cicindelidae)

The biodiversity of tiger beetles collected in Guinea-Bissau during an Entomological Mission to this African country is given. Twenty species were identified, and their distribution in Guinea-Bissau is mapped. A new species is described: Cylindera (Ifasina) gulbenkiana Serrano, n. sp. (GUINEA-BISSAU, TOMBALI, Guilege). This is the first new tiger beetle species described from this country in the last 158 years. A key to the known species of Cylindera (Ifasina) of WestAfrica is given. Adults of tiger beetles were found by direct observation and by light trapping. An up-date of the tiger beetle species recorded for Guinea-Bissau gives a total of 35 species.

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Biodiversity of tiger beetles from Angola with the description of a new species of the genus Neochila Basilewsky, 1953 (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.4 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4567 (1) ◽

pp. 61

Author(s):

ARTUR R. M. SERRANO ◽

RÚBEN A. CAPELA ◽

CARMEN VAN-DÚNEM SANTOS

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Record ◽

Beetle Species ◽

Tiger Beetle ◽

Tiger Beetles ◽

Annotated List ◽

A New Species

One new tiger beetle species of the genus Neochila Basilewsky, 1953 is described from Angola. The genus is a new record for this country also. An annotated list of species of Cicindelidae sampled in Angola, including data on distribution and general ecology of these beetles is presented. Further, a dichotomic key is made available for the identification of Neochila species of the katangana group.

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Studies of tiger beetles. CXIX. Three new species for the fauna of Vietnam (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)

Zoosystematica Rossica ◽

10.31610/zsr/2004.13.1.23 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 23-27

Author(s):

F. Cassola

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Beetle Species ◽

Tiger Beetle ◽

Tiger Beetles ◽

The World ◽

Three New Species ◽

First Time

Three tiger beetle species, Therates differens Sawada & Wiesner, 1999, Calomera brevipilosa (W. Horn, 1908) and Cosmodela separata (Fleutiaux, 1893), are recorded from Vietnam for the first time. The known tiger beetle fauna of this country is thus raised to a total of 132 species (45, or 34% of which are endemic), what definitely ranges Vietnam among the countries of the world with the richest outstanding entomological biodiversity (km2/species ratio: 2.507).

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ORIBATID MITES (ACARI: ORIBATIDA) PHORETIC ON PASSALID BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: PASSALIDAE), WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM INDONESIA

Ecologica Montenegrina ◽

10.37828/em.2019.22.6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 ◽

pp. 90-96

Author(s):

Sergey G. Ermilov

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Body Size ◽

Oribatid Mites ◽

Beetle Species ◽

A New Species

A new species of oribatid mites (Oribatida) phoretic on the beetle, Macrolinus batesi (Coleoptera, Passalidae) is described from Sumatra, Indonesia. Graptoppia (Stenoppia) royi sp. nov. (Oppiidae) differs from G. (S.) italica by the smaller body size, the presence of thin transcostula and the absence of costulae. Data on oribatids phoretic on passalid beetles are summarized; nine identified oribatid species (from 19 beetle species) are listed.

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Scobicia chevrieri (Villa & Villa 1835), a new species of the Bostrichidae family for the Slovak Republic

Journal of Forest Science ◽

10.17221/24/2014-jfs ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 60 (No. 8) ◽

pp. 349-350

Author(s):

J. Kollár

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

White Light ◽

Quercus Robur ◽

Slovak Republic ◽

Light Trap ◽

First Record ◽

Beetle Species ◽

Sample Collection ◽

Quercus Species ◽

A New Species

Coleoptera research was conducted in the Mlyňany Arboretum of SAS (48°19'12''N, 18°22'09''E) in 2013. Once per week monitoring was carried out from late April to early October. During the sample collection process, an occurrence of Scobicia chevrieri (Villa & Villa 1835) from the Bostrichidae family has been recorded. It is considered to be the first record of this powderpost beetle species in the Slovak Republic. An imago was caught in a light trap which uses UV tubes in combination with white light. Its potential host plant seems to be Quercus robur L., or other Quercus species found in the Mlyňany Arboretum of SAS.  

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Sandracottus vijayakumari (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), a new aquatic beetle species from landslide hit area of Nelliyampathy Forest Range, Western Ghats, Kerala, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa ◽

10.11609/jott.6193.13.3.17999-18003 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 17999-18003

Author(s):

P.P. Anand ◽

P.P. Ashiq ◽

M. Smitha ◽

M. Adithya ◽

T. Tibin ◽

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Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Related Species ◽

Western Ghats ◽

Beetle Species ◽

Closely Related Species ◽

Southern Western Ghats ◽

Aquatic Beetle ◽

A New Species

The present study deals with the description of a new species Sandracottus vijayakumari from Nelliyampathy forest range, southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India with a comparative key of closely related species S. dejeani Aube, 1838. Only one species is known from the genus Sandracottus Sharp, 1882, from southern Western Ghats, Kerala. The Nelliyampathy forest areas are hilly and the altitude of the hills range 40–1,530 m. The region experiences several types of landslides especially during the monsoon (August to September 2018). The new species was discovered in one of the worst landslide hits area in Nelliyampathy forest, Kundrachola region. The new aquatic beetle species is moderately large in size and often very attractively marked dorsally with complex maculations. Additionally, the new species shows a strong synapomorphy along with Eretini, Hydaticini, and Aubehydrini tribes.

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Bark beetle associated trematurid mites (Acari: Uropodina: Trematuridae) from Asian Russia with description of a new species

Systematic and Applied Acarology ◽

10.11158/saa.24.9.2 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (9) ◽

pp. 1592-1603 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jeno Kontschán ◽

Gábor Szőcs ◽

Balázs Kiss ◽

Alexander A. Khaustov

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Bark Beetle ◽

Bark Beetles ◽

Beetle Species ◽

New Associations ◽

Polygraphus Proximus ◽

Associated Species ◽

A New Species ◽

Different Parts

A new Oodinychus Berlese, 1917 species, O. scolytana sp. nov., was discovered and described from the galleries of bark beetles Polygraphus proximus Blandford from two different parts of Asian Russia. New associations are given for the trematurid mites and bark beetle species. Three bark beetle associated species from the Trichouropoda ovalis-group are moved into the genus Oodinychus as O. hirsuta (Hirschmann, 1972) comb. nov., O. rafalski (Wiśniewski & Hirschmann, 1984) comb. nov. and O. wilkinsoni (Hirschmann &Wiśniewski, 1986) comb. nov. Also, Oodinychus egypticus Abo-Shnaf, El-Bishlawy & Allam, 2018 is transferred to the genus Nenteria Oudemans, 1915.

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A new species of Orthomus Chaudoir, 1838 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Madeira island (Macaronesia) and notes on related species

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1972.1.2 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 1972 (1) ◽

pp. 20-34 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

ARTUR R. M. SERRANO ◽

CARLOS A. S. AGUIAR ◽

MÁRIO C. BOIEIRO ◽

PAULO A. V. BORGES ◽

CARLA REGO ◽

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Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Related Species ◽

Male Genitalia ◽

Ground Beetle ◽

Pitfall Traps ◽

Beetle Species ◽

Diagnostic Characters ◽

Madeira Island ◽

Island Type ◽

A New Species

The present study describes a new ground-beetle species (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Madeira island (type localities: FANAL and RIBEIRO BONITO), Orthomus (Nesorthomus) susanae Serrano & Borges, n. sp. Adults were sampled by means of pitfall traps. This work provides diagnostic characters, in particular the structure of male genitalia, and the distribution of this new species. Affinities to putative relatives and a key for the identification of males of the eight Orthomus (Nesorthomus) species of the Madeira island are also given.

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