Original scientific paper

Blattochaeta marianii kusijanovici, new subspecies (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae) from Croatia

Slavko Polak ; Notranjska museum Postojna, Ljubljanska ul. 10, SI-6230 Postojna, Slovenia
Branko Jalžić ; Department of Zoology, Croatian Natural History Museum, Croatian Biospeleological Society, Demetrova 1, HR-1000 Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The cave leptodirine beetle species of the genus Blattochaeta lives mainly in caves at higher altitudes of Montenegro and on the Herzegovinian side of Orjen Mountain. Previously, 5 species and 3 subspecies of this genus were known. In the present paper a new subspecies from Glogova jama [pit] in Mt Sniježnica in Croatia is described. The new subspecies is the smallest subspecies of Blattochaeta marianii, a species that lives in the wider Orjen plateau on the border of Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

Keywords

Coleoptera; Leiodidae; Cholevinae; Blattochaeta; new subspecies; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

38470

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/38470

Publication date:

30.6.2009.

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