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Parapaulipalpina Gnaspini

Description

Genus Parapaulipalpina Gnaspini

Parapaulipalpina Gnaspini, 1996: 524. Type species: Parapaulipalpina dentata Gnaspini (orig. des.).

= Viruana Salgado, 2013a: 89 (as subgenus of Excelsiorella Salgado [2008], synonymized under Adelopsis Portevin [1907] by Gnaspini et al., 2016: 274); Gnaspini et al., 2016: 274 syn. Type species: Excelsiorella tambopata Salgado (orig. des.).

Distribution: Northern South America.

Biology: Scavenger in moist forests.

Notes

Published as part of Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (" Latin America ": Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 4741 (1) on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3772899

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Leiodidae
Genus
Parapaulipalpina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Gnaspini
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Salgado, J. M. (2013 a) Cholevinae de Peru (Coleoptera, Leiodidae): especies nuevas y nuevos datos. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 52, 79 - 92.
  • Portevin, G. (1907) Clavicornes nouveaux du groupe des necrophages. Iie Memoire. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 76, 67 - 82.
  • Gnaspini, P., Antunes-Carvalho, C. & Peck, S. B. (2016) Two new synonymies at the generic level in Neotropical Ptomaphagini (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae). Zootaxa, 4132 (2), 272 - 274. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4132.2.7