Two new species of Microcosmodes Strand (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Panagaenini) from Oman and Iran

Martin Häckel; Saeed Azadbakhsh

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.7

Two new species of Microcosmodes Strand (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Panagaenini) from Oman and Iran

Zootaxa. 2016 Jul 13;4137(4):553-60. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.7.

Authors

Martin Häckel¹, Saeed Azadbakhsh²

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 Department of Plant Protection College of Agriculture, University of Razi P. O. Box 6715685438 Kermanshah-Iran.; Email: azadbakhsh@live.com.

PMID: 27470744
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.7

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Microcosmodes Strand, M. arabicus from Oman and M. persicus from Iran, are described, compared with related taxa, and their affinities are discussed. The species are very similar and belong to the same species group.

MeSH terms

Animals
Coleoptera / anatomy & histology*
Coleoptera / classification*
Female
Iran
Male
Oman
Species Specificity