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A new subgenus and a new species of the tenebrionid genus Leptodes Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)

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The genus Leptodes was erected by Dejean (1834) for a single species, Sepidium boisduvalii Zubkoff, 1833, which is, consequently, the type species by monotypy. Kaszab (1959) established in Leptodes the subgenus Leptodinopsis based on the same type species, Sepidium boisduvalii. Thus the names Leptodes and Leptodinopsis are objective synonyms: Leptodes Dejean, 1834 = Leptodinopsis Kaszab, 1959, syn. n. A new subgenus Mesoleptodes G. Medvedev et Iljina subgen, n. (type species Leptodes semenowi Reitter, 1892) is established for species which Kaszab included in Leptodes s. str. A new species, Leptodes daghestanicus G. Medvedev et Iljina, sp. n., is described from Daghestan.

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  1. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

    G. S. Medvedev & E. V. Iljina

  2. Daghestan State University, Makhachkala, Daghestan, Russia

    G. S. Medvedev & E. V. Iljina

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  1. G. S. Medvedev
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Original Russian Text © G.S. Medvedev, E.V. Iljina, 2007, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2007, Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 880-882.

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Medvedev, G.S., Iljina, E.V. A new subgenus and a new species of the tenebrionid genus Leptodes Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). Entmol. Rev. 87, 1035–1037 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873807080076

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