Saturday, March 12, 2022

N. 67: S. Facchini

 G. it. Ent., 16 (67): 441-450
March 2022


Notes on the Genus Bradybaenus Dejean, 1829

with description of a new species from Kenya and Somalia

(Coleoptera Carabidae, Harpalinae)


by


S. FACCHINI


Abstract - A new species of Bradybaenus Dejean, 1829 is here described - B. lucidicollis n. sp. - from Kenya and Somalia. The habitus and male genitalia of the new and related species are illustrated, moreover a checklist of the taxa and a key to the known species of the genus Bradybaenus are provided. The following systematic change is proposed: Bradybaenus exiguus Facchini, 2011 is a junior (new) synonym of Bradybaenus neavei Basilewsky, 1946.