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A new species and three new records of tribe Tritomini (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) in Korea

  • Received : 2019.08.27
  • Accepted : 2019.09.16
  • Published : 2019.09.28
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Abstract

A new species, Tritoma gangwonensis sp. nov., is described. Also three species - Rhodotritoma fitlva (Reitter, 1879), Triplax discicollis Lewis, 1887 and Triplax signaticollis Reitter, 1879 - are reported for the first time in Korea. A description and redescriptions for each species, photographs of adults and illustrations of diagnostic characters are provided.

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