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Issue: Vol. 4137 No. 4: 13 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.5
Page range: 535–544
Abstract views: 88
PDF downloaded: 104

Morphology and DNA barcoding reveal a new species of Eudicella from East Africa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, 123 83 Praha 2, Czech Republic Allgemeine Zoologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Hoher Weg 8, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany Zentralmagazin Naturwissenschaftlicher Sammlungen, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Domplatz 4, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany.
Coleoptera beetle COI Uganda Kenya integrative taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of Eudicella White, 1839 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae), is described from Uganda and Kenya: E. nana new species. Morphological and genetic analyses of the new taxon and phenotypically allied species are given. Eudicella nana is compared with its hypothesized sister species, E. darwiniana Kraatz, 1880, and diagnostic characters that distinguish it from other species occurring in the same region are provided.

 

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