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First record of the beetle family Biphyllidae (Coleoptera) in Korea

  • Park, Sun-Jae (National Institute of Biological Resources) ;
  • Ko, Eun-Sun (Department of Biology, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Ahn, Kee-Jeong (Department of Biology, Chungnam National University)
  • Published : 2012.07.29
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Abstract

The Biphyllidae including four species, Biphyllus lewisi (Reitter), B. marmoratus (Reitter), B. rufopictus (Wollaston) and B. throscoides (Wollaston), are discovered for the first time in Korea. A key, habitus photographs and illustrations of diagnostic characters of the species are presented.

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