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Anthicidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from New Guinea in the Hornabrook Collection

Gerhard Uhmann*

Fifteen species of anthicid beetles, including five new species, were found in the Hornabrook Collection from New Guinea. The species new to science, here described and illustrated, are: Tomoderus hornabrooki new species, Formicomus longidentatus new species, Pseudoleptaleus nitens new species, Stricticomus niger new species, and Sapintus madangensis new species. Other recorded species are: Anthicomorphus dohertyi Pic, 1910; Anthicomorphus subelongatus Pic, 1910; Macratria neoguineensis Pic, 1901a; Omonadus floralis (Linnaeus, 1758); Pseudoleptaleus horvathi Pic, 1902; Sapintus dilensis (Pic, 1901b); Sapintus gracilicornis (Pic, 1895); Tomoderus biroi Pic, 1902; Tomoderus novaeguineae Heberdey, 1936; and Tomoderus trimaculatus Pic, 1902.

Keywords: Coleoptera, Anthicidae, new species, New Guinea

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Volume 25, Number 4, December 1995, pp 517-526

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