Moroccan Asidini VI. Description of three new species of the genus Alphasida Escalera, 1905 and one new subspecies of the genus Asida Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)
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https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia.2012.v68.047Keywords:
Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Asidini, Asida, Alphasida, bereai, cobosi, dendriticosta, espagnoli, Glabrasida, Planasida, sefrouensis, MoroccoAbstract
Four new taxa belonging to the Moroccan fauna are described in this paper, on the basis of specimens found in the collections of Coleoptera Tenebrionidae from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN), Madrid and from the Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris. The original labels of identification of the MNCN, in three cases represent a nomen in litteris, and one an erroneous identification. The specimens preserved in the MNHN were unidentified. Three of the new taxa are new species of the genus Alphasida Escalera, 1905, subgenus Glabrasida Escalera, 1910: Alphasida (Glabrasida) cobosi n. sp., Alphasida (Glabrasida) dendriticosta n. sp. and Alphasida (Glabrasida) sefrouensis n. sp. The remaining taxon belongs to the genus Asida Latreille, 1802 and is related to Asida (Planasida) bereai Escalera, 1907, but differs from the nominal form and from the other known subspecies in several characters; it is described as Asida (Planasida) bereai espagnoli n. subsp.
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