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A new genus and species Microdocnemis xerophilicus gen. et sp. n. of the tenebrionid-beetle tribe Helopini is described from southwestern Turkey. The new genus belongs to the cylindrinotoid group of genera and is closely related to the genus Odocnemis Allard, 1876 in the structure of the male genitalia and female genital tubes and in the denticulation of the inner margin of the fore tibia. Microdocnemis differs from Odocnemis in the following characters: body very weakly flattened dorsally and ventrally; apical part of elytra, body ventrally, and epipleura with hairs; anal sternite with double bordering; apical margins of tibiae with short thick spines. The only species of the new genus inhabits xerophytic stony biotopes and has been found under stones; the species of the genus Odocnemis live on tree trunks covered with lichens.
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Original Russian Text © M.V. Nabozhenko, B. Keskin, 2010, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2010, Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 840–844.
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Nabozhenko, M.V., Keskin, B. A new genus and species of darkling beetles of the tribe Helopini (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) from Turkey. Entmol. Rev. 90, 1215–1218 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873810090071
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