Five new species of Triotemnus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) from Morocco and Yemen

By

Knížek, Miloš

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2010

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

56

Pages

191-206

Subjects

Bark beetles , Dryocoetini , Morocco , Palaearctic region , Socotra , Yemen

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.56.526

 

Abstract

Five new species of the genus Triotemnus from Morocco and Yemen are described. Triotemnus is a new genus of Scolytinae for the Yemen region. External morphology of the new species and all morphologically related species of the genus was studied. While the new species from Morocco are morphologically similar to the known species from the corresponding region, all three newly described species from Yemen, mainly two of them living in Socotra, are morphologically very different from all other known species of the genus. Geographical distribution and the probability of endemicity are discussed.