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Nine genera of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera) new to Peru, with a key to Peruvian genera

Abstract. Thirteen genera of Eucnemidae containing forty species were collected from the Iquitos region in Peru. Nine of the genera are new to the country: Rhagomicrus Fleutiaux, 1902, Adelorhagus Horn, 1890, Adelothyreus Chevrolat, 1867, Microrhagus Dejean, 1833, Dyscharachthis Blackburn, 1900, Het...

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Autores principales: Vahtera, Varpu, Muona, Jyrki, Linna, Ari, Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4366809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25834475
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4493
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author Vahtera, Varpu
Muona, Jyrki
Linna, Ari
Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.
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Muona, Jyrki
Linna, Ari
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description Abstract. Thirteen genera of Eucnemidae containing forty species were collected from the Iquitos region in Peru. Nine of the genera are new to the country: Rhagomicrus Fleutiaux, 1902, Adelorhagus Horn, 1890, Adelothyreus Chevrolat, 1867, Microrhagus Dejean, 1833, Dyscharachthis Blackburn, 1900, Heterotaxis Bonvouloir, 1871, Spinifornax Fleutiaux, 1926, Serrifornax Fleutiaux, 1926 and Maelodrus Fleutiaux, 1928. The previous eucnemid record from Peru contained eleven species in ten genera. Only one of the forty species caught, Entomophthalmus americanus Bonvouloir, was previously known and described from the country. Dyscharachthis, Maelodrus and Adelorhagus are recorded from South America for the first time. Many of the collected species seem to favor white-sand forest as their habitat. Possible reasons for this are discussed. A list of eucnemids from Peru is included, containing taxa already recorded from the country and also taxa that are likely to occur there. A key to the Peruvian genera is included.
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spelling pubmed-43668092015-04-01 Nine genera of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera) new to Peru, with a key to Peruvian genera Vahtera, Varpu Muona, Jyrki Linna, Ari Sääksjärvi, Ilari E. Biodivers Data J Taxonomic Paper Abstract. Thirteen genera of Eucnemidae containing forty species were collected from the Iquitos region in Peru. Nine of the genera are new to the country: Rhagomicrus Fleutiaux, 1902, Adelorhagus Horn, 1890, Adelothyreus Chevrolat, 1867, Microrhagus Dejean, 1833, Dyscharachthis Blackburn, 1900, Heterotaxis Bonvouloir, 1871, Spinifornax Fleutiaux, 1926, Serrifornax Fleutiaux, 1926 and Maelodrus Fleutiaux, 1928. The previous eucnemid record from Peru contained eleven species in ten genera. Only one of the forty species caught, Entomophthalmus americanus Bonvouloir, was previously known and described from the country. Dyscharachthis, Maelodrus and Adelorhagus are recorded from South America for the first time. Many of the collected species seem to favor white-sand forest as their habitat. Possible reasons for this are discussed. A list of eucnemids from Peru is included, containing taxa already recorded from the country and also taxa that are likely to occur there. A key to the Peruvian genera is included. Pensoft Publishers 2015-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4366809/ /pubmed/25834475 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4493 Text en Varpu Vahtera, Jyrki Muona, Ari Linna, Ilari E. Sääksjärvi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Vahtera, Varpu
Muona, Jyrki
Linna, Ari
Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.
Nine genera of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera) new to Peru, with a key to Peruvian genera
title Nine genera of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera) new to Peru, with a key to Peruvian genera
title_full Nine genera of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera) new to Peru, with a key to Peruvian genera
title_fullStr Nine genera of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera) new to Peru, with a key to Peruvian genera
title_full_unstemmed Nine genera of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera) new to Peru, with a key to Peruvian genera
title_short Nine genera of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera) new to Peru, with a key to Peruvian genera
title_sort nine genera of eucnemidae (coleoptera) new to peru, with a key to peruvian genera
topic Taxonomic Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4366809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25834475
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4493
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