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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.20302/NC.2019.28.25

Revision of the genus Bathyscidius Jeannel, 1910 (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Leptodirini), with a description of a new subgenus and three new species from Croatia and Montenegro

Slavko Polak ; Notranjska museum Postojna, Kolodvorska cesta 3, SI-6230 Postojna, Slovenia
Branko Jalžić ; Croatian Biospeleological Society, Demetrova 1, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia


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Abstract

The genus Bathyscidius is, according to the body size, one of the smallest leptodirines. Six species, one of them including two subspecies, have been described to date. This study has undertaken a taxonomical revision of the genus Bathyscidius s. str. Existing species are re-described, supported with detailed morphometry and, for the first time, with the description of male and female internal morphological characters. Three newly discovered species B. mljetensis, B. komajiensis and B. orjensis are described; one subspecies B. t. fallaciosus is elevated to species rank and one of the existing species B. remyi is synonymized. For the two geographically isolated species, B. rambouseki and B. tomoricensis, a new subgenus, Ionobathyscidius, is established.

Keywords

Leptodirini; Bathyscidius; Ionobathyscidius; systematics; revision; new species; Dinaric Karst

Hrčak ID:

231402

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/231402

Publication date:

31.12.2019.

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