A new troglobiont species of the weevil genus Otiorhynchus Germ., 1822 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from the West Caucasus
A new species O. (Namertanus) vargovitchi Davidian, sp. n. from the complex Tournieria – complex is described from the West Caucasus. It is closely related to O. glebi Davidian et Savitsky, 2006, from which it differs in the following features: narrow body shape with shiny integument, absence o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Science, Federal state budgetary institution
2007-12-01
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| Series: | Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6_GE%20Davidian.pdf |
| Summary: | A new species O. (Namertanus) vargovitchi
Davidian, sp. n. from the complex Tournieria – complex
is described from the West Caucasus. It is closely related
to O. glebi Davidian et Savitsky, 2006, from which it differs
in the following features: narrow body shape with shiny
integument, absence of eyes, flattened epistomal carina
without apical epistomal angles, sparse punctuation on disc
of pronotum, declivous apical elytral slope, broader and
smoother elytral interstriae, sparser body pubescence |
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| ISSN: | 1814-3326 1814-3326 |