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
)
fitzcarraldi
Giachino & Allegro, 2011
(
Figs. 23
,
61
,
97
)
Blennidus fitzcarraldi
Giachino & Allegro, 2011: 23
Type
locality.
Peru
, Dip. Ancash, San Luis, laguna Huachucocha, m 4200.
Examined material.
HT ♂ (CAl); 47 PTT (
35 ♂
and 12 ♀) (complete TS) (CAl, CCa, CGi, CMo, CVi,
BMNH
,
MNHNP
,
MRSN
,
MSNM
,
UASM
).
Note.
This species is easily distinguished from the others from Cordillera Blanca (
B. huascarani
and
B. unistria
) by the markedly angulate hind angles of pronotum. Because of the similarities in external morphology and in male genitalia, its closest relative is probably
B. unistria
.
Distribution.
Restricted to the Dept. Ancash, within Cordillera Blanca.
Habitat.
All the recorded specimens (legit G. Allegro) are from high altitude (
4,200–4,450 m
a.s.l.) Andean grasslands.