Pietro Lo Cascio

• Biodiversity Journal, 15 (3): 509-516

  Pietro Lo Cascio & Piero Leo
  A new Trachyscelis Latreille, 1809 from Cape Verde Islands (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae)
  https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2024.15.3.509.516
  https://www.zoobank.org/B2828CA2-90F6-4345-9131-AA263A97A26D

  ABSTRACT
  A new species of Trachyscelis Latreille, 1809 (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae) endemic to some islands of the Cape Verde archipelago is described. It differs from the widely distributed T. aphodioides Latreille, 1809 for the testaceous teguments, the incomplete set of elytral striae where only 1-3 are entirely visible, the smaller eyes with 50 ommatidia and the reduced wings.

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