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
)
etontii
Allegro & Giachino, 2011
(
Figs. 21
,
59
,
95
)
Blennidus etontii
Allegro & Giachino, 2011a
: 302
Type
locality.
Peru
, Lares, Abra Lares, m 4000.
Examined material.
HT ♂ (CGi), 7 PTT ♂ and 6 PTT ♀ (CAl, CGi, CMa) (complete TS).
Note.
This species belongs to the group of
B. jelskii
(
Tschitschérine, 1897
)
, which includes 5 species distributed in the Andes of southern
Peru
and distinguished by the peculiar morphology of aedeagus (
Allegro & Giachino 2011a
).
Distribution.
Probably restricted to the Andean district of Cuzco (southern
Peru
).
Habitat.
All the recorded specimens (legit M. Etonti) are from high altitude (
4,000–4,200 m
a.s.l.) Andean grasslands.