Taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical scarab beetle genus Cerhomalus Quedenfeldt, 1884 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae)
- The Afrotropical scarab beetle genus Cerhomalus Quedenfeldt, 1884 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) is revised. Two new species are described: C. quedenfeldti sp. nov. and C. petrovitzi sp. nov. A new combination, Cerhomalus absconditus (Petrovitz, 1971) comb. nov., is established. The genus occurs in Central and West Africa with the majority of records from the Congo Basin. Keys, descriptions, illustrations of habitus and male genitalia, and distributional record map are given.
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| Author: | Andrey V. Frolov, Lilia A. Akhmetova |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-557507 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.739.1265 |
| ISSN: | 2118-9773 |
| Parent Title (English): | European journal of taxonomy |
| Series (Serial Number): | European journal of taxonomy : EJT (739:36–50) |
| Publisher: | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle |
| Place of publication: | Paris |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/03/12 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/03/12 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/05/17 |
| Tag: | Angola; Congo Basin; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Orphnines; Republic of the Congo |
| Volume: | 2021 |
| Issue: | 739 |
| Page Number: | 15 |
| First Page: | 36 |
| Last Page: | 50 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 480821062 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 59 Tiere (Zoologie) / 590 Tiere (Zoologie) |
| Sammlungen: | Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
