Description of a second South American species in the Malagasy earwig genus Mesodiplatys from a cave habitat, with notes on the definition of Haplodiplatyidae (Insecta, Dermaptera)

The genus Mesodiplatys (Dermaptera: Diplatyidae) comprises eight species from Madagascar and one species from Peru. Based on a sample collected from a cave in Brazil, a new species of this genus, Mesodiplatys falcifer Kamimura, sp. n., is described as the second species from South America. Based on...

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Main Authors: Yoshitaka Kamimura, Rodrigo L. Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2018-10-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=27193