Afrotarus Jeannel, 1949
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.1.9 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:26A191C8-6F05-4847-B1B7-0A526C127EEA |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6000043 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B84B65-3D39-FFBF-04F9-C88FF45DFD27 |
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Afrotarus Jeannel, 1949 |
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Afrotarus Jeannel, 1949 View in CoL
Afrotarus View in CoL is a polytypic genus of Cymindidina View in CoL , comprising six described species distributed in East Africa, Arabia and Israel ( Bousquet 2012). Ball and Hichlie (1983) treated Afrotarus View in CoL as a subgenus of Cymindis View in CoL , but later on in Bousquet (2012) Afrotarus View in CoL is a separate genus. Afrotarus View in CoL species are very similar to some members of genus Cymindis View in CoL but can be differentiated from the South Arabian species of the latter by two supraorbital ridges not branched and last labial palpomeres weakly dilated at apex. From the Arabian Peninsula only Afrotarus scotti View in CoL is known, which was described from Yemen by Basilewsky (1948) and then reported from Saudi Arabia ( Mateu 1986). Although the holotype of A. scotti View in CoL was not found, a paratype specimen from MRCA was examined and compared with Saudi materials preserved in the BMNH, which was identified by Mateu and recently collected during this work. Based on this, the Saudi specimens apparently similar to A. scotti View in CoL paratype, are designated here as A. soudaensis View in CoL sp. n. and A. fadli View in CoL sp. n.
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