Annotated checklist of the Blennidus subgenus Agraphoderus species from Peru with description of B. bombonensis n. sp. and synonymic notes (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichinae)
Author
Allegro, Gianni
Author
Giachino, Pier Mauro
text
Zootaxa
2015
4000
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1
48
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4000.1.1
507a3784-35f5-46f5-9492-e0884a502f40
1175-5326
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Blennidus
(
Agraphoderus
)
abditus
Giachino & Allegro, 2011
(
Figs. 12
, 50, 88)
Blennidus abditus
Giachino & Allegro, 2011: 28
Type
locality.
Peru
, Dept. Huancavelica, Embranch.r.Pampas-Huancavelica,
3,800 m
.
Examined material.
HT ♂ (CMa at
MRSN
); 3 PTT ♂ (CMa, CGi, CAl) (complete TS).
Note.
Species easily distinguished by the distinctive morphology of aedeagus (Giachino & Allegro 2011). The
4 specimens
of the TS were found in CMa, two of them unidentified and two labelled as PTT within the TS of
Ogmopleura minor
Straneo, 1993
(=
Blennidus rectangulus
syn. nov.
).
Distribution.
Blennidus abditus
is only recorded from Dept. of Huancavelica (Central
Peru
).
Habitat.
The known specimens (TS) were collected at
3,800 m
a.s.l., probably in an Andean grassland.