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A New Genus and Species of Darkling Beetles of the Tribe Blaptini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Afghanistan and Taxonomic Changes in the Tribe

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A new genus and species Medvedevia glebigen. et sp. n. of the tribe Blaptini is described from eastern Nuristan, Afghanistan. The new genus belongs to the subtribe Blaptina. It is closely related to the genus Blaps Fabricius, 1775, which is evidenced by its body shape, structure of tarsomeres, and presence of the mucron. Medvedeviagen. n. differs from all Blaptini in the following characters: very wide mentum concealing the base of the labium and maxillae; not beaded pronotum; very wide processes of the mesoventrite and of abdominal ventrite 1; unusual structure of the aedeagus (basal piece is weakly C-curved, parameres are deeply cleft). New synonymy is established: subtribe Blaptina Leach, 1815 = Dilina Ren in Ren et al., 2016, syn. n.

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The author is cordially grateful to A.G. Kirejtshuk (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia) and M.V. Nabozhenko (Caspian Institute of Biological Resources of Dagestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Science, Makhachkala, Russia) for valuable comments and corrections during preparation of the manuscript.

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This study was supported by the Russian State Research Project of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, No. AAAA-A19-119020690101-6, and by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant No 18-04-00243-a).

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Chigray, I.A. A New Genus and Species of Darkling Beetles of the Tribe Blaptini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Afghanistan and Taxonomic Changes in the Tribe. Entmol. Rev. 99, 914–923 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873819070054

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