Materials to the knowledge of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera) of The Republic of Gambia

• Authors: Borowski Jerzy
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Expedition to Gambia in 2013 resulted in collecting 22 species of Bostrichidae, including 13 new to this country, 3 new to West Africa and one not recorded previously in Africa at all; moreover, the description of one species new to science (Amintinus gambianus sp. n.) and two synonymizations – Sinoxylon doliolum Lesne syn. n. of S. rufobasale Fairm. and Xyloperthella guineensis Roberts syn. n. of X. picea (Oliv.) – are provided.

Keywords

EN

Amintinus gambianus sp. n.; Bostrichidae; Coleoptera; Gambia; West Africa; faunistics; new synonyms; taxonomy

Discipline

• ZOOLOGY: ZOOLOGY

• Publisher: Scientific Publishing House „DARWIN”
• Journal: World Scientific News
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 106
• Pages: 1-11

Contributors

author

Borowski Jerzy

• Department of Forest Protection and Ecology, University of Life Sciences SGGW, ul. Nowoursynowska 159/34, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland

References

• [1] Borowski, J. & Węgrzynowicz, P. 2007. World Catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera). Wydawnictwo Mantis, Olsztyn, Poland.
• [2] Borowski, J. & Węgrzynowicz, P. 2012. The Powderpost Beetles of the World (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae). Keys for Identification of Species. Vol. 1. Wydawnictwo Mantis, Olsztyn, Poland.
• [3] Lesne, P. 1924. Les Coléoptères Bostrychides de l'Afrique Tropicale Française. Encyclopédie Entomologique 3: 1-301.
• [4] Roberts, H. 1967. A new powder-post beetle, Xyloperthella guineensis, together with an annotated Check List of the subfamily Bostrychinae (Col., Fam. Bostrychidae) from Nigeria. Journal of the Natural History 2(1) [1968]: 85-104.
• [5] Węgrzynowicz, P. & Borowski, J. 2015. A new species of Lichenophanes Lesne, 1899 (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) from Gambia. Annales Zoologici 65(4): 573-578.

• Document Type: article