Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” (Dec 2022)

Platyscelio hits again: the first record of this genus in the Dominican Republic

  • Ovidiu Alin Popovici,
  • Irinel Eugen Popescu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/travaux.65.e98045
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 65, no. 2
pp. 127 – 134

Abstract

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After the presence of the genus Platyscelio was noticed and confirmed in the Neotropical realm, in this paper the genus is recorded from the Panamanian realm, in Dominican Republic. In the Neotropical realm Platyscelio is represented through P. africanus Risbec, previously considered as being present only in the Afrotropical realm, but in the Panamanian realm we found a different species – P. pulchricornis Kieffer.

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