Two new species of the genus Blattochaeta Reitter, 1910 (Insecta, Coleoptera Leiodidae, Cholevinae, Leptodirini) from Montenegro
Author
Čeplík, Dávid
Biospeleologica Slovaca, Letná 16, SK- 040 01, Košice, Slovakia. Croatian Biospeleological Society, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Author
Lakota, Ján
0000-0002-4264-9129
Biospeleologica Slovaca, Letná 16, SK- 040 01, Košice, Slovakia. Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology, Školská 4, SK- 031 01, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia. Croatian Biospeleological Society, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia. jan. lakota @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4264 - 9129
jan.lakota@gmail.com
Author
Čeplík, Jaroslav
Biospeleologica Slovaca, Letná 16, SK- 040 01, Košice, Slovakia.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-05-10
4969
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journal article
6443
10.11646/zootaxa.4969.1.4
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1175-5326
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Genus
Blattochaeta
Reitter, 1910
Diagnosis.
A member of the subterranean tribe
Leptodirini
, subtribe
Bathysciina
, group Théléomorphes, division II
sensu
Jeannel 1924
, defined by: bathysciod body shape, protarsi four segmented in both sexes, protibiae lacking comb (pecten) along the lateral external margin and lacking external apical spurs, pronotum evenly convex, trapezoidal and widest at its base, inner sac (endophallus) of median lobe with sclerotized structures (apical reinforcement bands, medially positioned sclerotized structures, feather-like structures, connection nodules and basal phanera).
Distribution map for the genus
Blattochaeta
is given (
Fig. 16
).