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Tetratoma (Abstrulia) pictipennis New to South Korea (Coleoptera: Tetratomidae), with a Key to Species of the Subgenus Abstrulia

  • Received : 2021.12.21
  • Accepted : 2022.04.25
  • Published : 2022.04.30
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Abstract

The subgenus Abstrulia Casey belonging to the genus Tetratoma Fabricius of the family Tetratomidae is distributed ten species over the Holarctic region, including eight Palaearctic species. In East Asia, four species from Russian Far East and two species from Japan have been recorded, respectively. In the Korean Peninsula, two species, T. (A.) ainu (Nakane) and T. (A.) pictipennis Reitter, were reported up to date, and latter species is newly recorded in South Korea in this paper. A redescription, habitus photograph, and illustrations of diagnostic characters of the species are provided, with a key to species of the subgenus Abstrulia.

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Acknowledgement

We are grateful to Prof. Hiroyuki Yoshitomi (Ehime University, Japan) for providing holotype image and label data. This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Biological Resources(NIBR), funded by the Ministry of Environment(MOE) of the Republic of Korea (NIBR201801203).

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