The Ceratocanthinae of Ulu Gombak: high species richness at a single site, with descriptions of three new species and an annotated checklist of the Ceratocanthinae of Western Malaysia and Singapore (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Hybosoridae)
Author
Ballerio, Alberto
, Brescia, Italy
Author
Maruyama, Munetoshi
The Kyushu University Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
text
ZooKeys
2010
2010-01-28
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34
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journal article
10.3897/zookeys.34.268
7a68e13d-3c05-49d5-86a3-7bdb5c4af1ce
1313–2970
576606
553C91CE-FEA1-4867-929B-2865647E4B2E
Pterorthochaetes
insularis
Gestro, 1899
(
Fig. 3A
)
Known distribution:
Indonesia
,
Philippines
(
Paulian 1978
),
Nepal
(
Ballerio 1999
), West
Malaysia
(
Kelantan
) (Grebennikov et al. 2005).
New material examined: West
Malaysia
,
Perak
,
25 km
NE of Ipoh, Banjaran Titi Wangsa Mounts, Gunung Korbu, 1400–1800 mt.,
11–31.I.1999
, leg. P. Cechovsky (
ABCB
).
Remarks. First record for Perak and Selangor. Based on unpublished data of the senior author,
P. insularis
is a quite common species with a wide distribution, spanning from
Nepal
to Borneo, with a strong geographical morphological variation, whose taxonomic meaning still needs to be evaluated.