A new species and subspecies of the darkling beetle genus Thraustocolus Kraatz, 1866 from Oman (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)

By

Wagner, Gerhard

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-7-28

Original Publication

Evolutionary systematics

Volume

7

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

253--256

Subjects

Arabian Peninsula , Coleoptera , Pimeliinae , taxonomy , Tenebrionidae , Tentyriini , Thraustocolus

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Hamburg Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.7.105423

 

Abstract

A new species of darkling beetle Thraustocolus (Prothraustocola) clypealissp. nov. with the new subspecies T. (P.) clypealis minorssp. nov. are described from Oman and distinguished from other species of the genus. Images of important characters are provided for easier identification and discrimination of the new species.