Two new Craspedophorus species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Panagaeini) from the Philippines

Martin Häckel; Alexandr Anichtchenko

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3955.3.9

Two new Craspedophorus species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Panagaeini) from the Philippines

Zootaxa. 2015 May 5;3955(3):427-34. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3955.3.9.

Authors

Martin Häckel¹, Alexandr Anichtchenko²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Game Management and Wildlife Biology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Prague 6, Czech Republic.; Email: hackel@uvn.cz.
² Daugavpils University, Institute of Systematic Biology, Vienibas iela 13-229, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia.; Email: beetl2000@mail.ru.

PMID: 25947863
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3955.3.9

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Craspedophorus Hope, 1838 from the Philippine Islands namely, C.luzonensis sp. nov. and C. kirschenhoferi sp. nov. are described and their affinities are discussed, illustrated and compared with related taxa. Craspedophorus luzonensis sp. nov., from Luzon, belongs to the "obscurus species group, whereas C. kirschenhoferi sp. nov., from Mindanao, stands isolated in the genus.

MeSH terms

Animal Distribution
Animal Structures / anatomy & histology
Animal Structures / growth & development
Animals
Body Size
Coleoptera / anatomy & histology
Coleoptera / classification*
Coleoptera / growth & development
Female
Male
Organ Size
Philippines