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Notes on the Subfamily Anataeliinae (Dermaptera, Pygidicranidae), with Description of Challia steineri sp. n. from Laos

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The subfamily Anataeliinae Burr, 1909 is restored in its original composition as one containing two genera: Anataelia Bolivar, 1899 and Challia Burr, 1904. Challiinae Steinmann, 1973, syn. n. is synonymized with Anataeliinae. Challia steineri sp. n. is described from Laos. “Anataelia” ramalhoi Sakai, 1996 described from Brazil is argued to belong to neither Anataelia nor Anataeliinae; it probably belongs to the subfamily Pygidicraninae. A detailed morphological redescription of A. canariensis Bolivar, 1899 is given. The history of the study, diagnoses, and possible apomorphies of the above-mentioned taxa are briefly discussed. The present wide distribution of Anataeliinae (the Canary Islands for Anataelia and East and South-East Asia for Challia) is apparently relict.

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I am grateful to my friends and colleagues without whose help this study would have been impossible: to G. Steiner for specimens of Challia steineri sp. n. granted to the collection of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; to J. Beccaloni for the opportunity of examination of Anataelia canariensis in the collection of the Natural History Museum (London), to P. Vršanský, A.V. Gorochov, I.G. Danilov, A.G. Koval, F.V. Konstantinov, and M. Nishikawa for consultations and for their help in the search for the necessary literature, and also to the anonymous reviewer whose remarks have helped improving the manuscript.

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The study was performed within the framework of state project AAAA-A19-119082990107-3.

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Anisyutkin, L.N. Notes on the Subfamily Anataeliinae (Dermaptera, Pygidicranidae), with Description of Challia steineri sp. n. from Laos. Entmol. Rev. 100, 672–683 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873820050097

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