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Issue: Vol. 4103 No. 1: 11 Apr. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-04-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.1.9
Page range: 75–78
Abstract views: 44
PDF downloaded: 2

First record of Calycina Blair, 1922 (Coleoptera, Mordellidae) in the Russian Far East with description of a new species

Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD UK.
Laboratory of Agricultural Entomology, All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Saint Petersburg, Pushkin, Podbelsky roadway 3, 196608 Russia Laboratory of Insect Systematics, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Universitetskaya embankment 1, 199034 Russia.
Coleoptera Mordellidae

Abstract

The genus Calycina Blair, 1922 (Mordellinae, Mordellini) is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic genera of Mordellidae. The genus exhibits a pantropical distribution: one species with two subspecies in South America (Horák 1999; Leblanc 2013), one species in Africa (Horák 1999), three species in Southeast Asia (Horák 1999) and two species in the Papuan Region (Horák 1999; Ruzzier 2013). All species are known from only a few specimens, almost exclusively females, and appear to be generally very rare. Only Calycina major Nomura, 1967 and Calycina nigroapicalis Nomura, 1967 reach the Palearctic Region (Horák 2008; Ruzzier 2013) and no other species have been recorded from higher latitudes. The opportunity to study specimens from the Primorye region (Russian Far East) allowed the authors to identify a new species that is described below.

 

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