2 NEW EAST PALEARCTIC AGABUS SPECIES OF THE ADPRESSUS GROUP AND CONFINIS GROUP (COLEOPTERA, DYTISCIDAE)

Authors
Citation
An. Nilsson, 2 NEW EAST PALEARCTIC AGABUS SPECIES OF THE ADPRESSUS GROUP AND CONFINIS GROUP (COLEOPTERA, DYTISCIDAE), Entomologica Fennica, 5(3), 1994, pp. 169-175
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
ISSN journal
07858760
Volume
5
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
169 - 175
Database
ISI
SICI code
0785-8760(1994)5:3<169:2NEPAS>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
The Agabus adpressus-group is defined and Agabus udege sp.n. is descri bed from the Sikhote-Alin mountain range in easternmost Russia. It is the sister-species of A. adpressus Aube, 1837. Some East Palearctic sp ecimens previously assigned to Agabus discolor (Harris, 1828), A. clyp ealis (Thomson, 1867), and A. levanderi Hellen, 1929, in the literatur e are described as Agabus angusi sp.n. The new species is known from t he Lake Baikal region and eastwards to NE Mongolia and northernmost Ch ina.