A new species of the genus Adelphinus Fairmaire et Coquerel, 1866 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Iran

A new species Adelphinus (Adelphinops) dmitrii sp. n. is described from Iran (Fars Province). The species differs from close A.  ordubadensis Reitter, 1890 (it is distributed in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) and A. afghanicus Kaszab, 1960 (it is distributed in Afghanistan) in the black body, two...

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Main Author: M.V. Nabozhenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Science, Federal state budgetary institution 2015-11-01
Series:Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень
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Online Access:http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16_Nabozhenko.pdf
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Summary:A new species Adelphinus (Adelphinops) dmitrii sp. n. is described from Iran (Fars Province). The species differs from close A.  ordubadensis Reitter, 1890 (it is distributed in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) and A. afghanicus Kaszab, 1960 (it is distributed in Afghanistan) in the black body, two transverse depression near basal bead of pronotum, elytral interstriae with sparse granules, process of abdominal ventrite 1 between metacoxae with deep transverse depression. Key to species of the subgenus Adelphinops Reitter, 1922 is given.
ISSN:1814-3326
1814-3326