New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
A new species of Saprosites Redtenbacher from North Island,
New Zealand, with phylogenetic implications (Coleoptera, Aphodiinae,
Eupariini)
Zdzislawa T. Stebnicka
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals
Polish Academy of Sciences
31-016 Krakow, Poland
email: stebnicka@isez.pan.krakow.pl
Abstract A new Aphodiinae (Eupariini) species: Saprosites
kaimai sp. nov. is described from North Island. This description
increases the number of New Zealand members of Saprosites
Redtenbacher to 10 recognised species. A cladistic analysis of the
relationships among New Zealand and Neotropical species-groups of Saprosites
is presented.
Keywords Coleoptera; Aphodiinae; Saprosites;
new species; phylogeny
Z04010; Received 30 March 2004; accepted 16 August 2004; Online
publication date 2 March 2005
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2005, Vol. 32: 47–51
0301–4223/05/3201–0047
© The Royal Society of New Zealand 2005
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