Original scientific paper
Five new species of the genus Leptomeson Jeannel, 1924 from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Coleoptera, Cholevidae, Leptodirinae)
Pier Mauro Giachino
; Settore Fitosanitario regionale, Environment Park, Palazzina A2, Via Livorno 60, 10 144 Torino, Italy
Petra Bregović
orcid.org/0000-0003-2849-5546
; Croatian Biospeleological Society (CBSS), Demetrova 1, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Branko Jalžić
; Department of Zoology, Croatian Natural History Museum, Croatian Biospeleological Society (CBSS), Demetrova 1, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Five new species of genus Leptomeson Jeannel, 1924 are described here, four from Croatia and one from Bosnia and Herzegovina: L. radjai n. sp. of from the pit Zvekača, close to Šibenik, L. dalmatinus n. sp. from the pit Maravića jama, on the island of Čiovo, L. bujasi n. sp. from the pit Jama kod Matešića stana, on the island of Brač, L. biokovensis n. sp. from the pit Pretnerova jama, on the Biokovo Mountain and L. raguzi n. sp. from the cave Majića ponor, near Grude. Moreover, some new chorological data are given on L. dombrowskii dombrowskii (Apfelbeck, 1907), found in the cave Baba špilja, on Biokovo Mountain (Dalmatia).
Keywords
Leptomeson; radjai n. sp.; dalmatinus n. sp.; bujasi n. sp.; biokovensis n. sp.; raguzi n. sp.; dombrowskii dombrowskii; taxonomy; chorology; subterranean beetles; zoogeography
Hrčak ID:
75137
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Publication date:
31.12.2011.
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