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Contributions to Entomology

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0005-805X 2511-6428

Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

10.3897/contrib.entomol.72.e87234

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Research Article

Coleoptera Pselaphii

Biogeography Systematics

Two new species of Bergrothia Reitter, 1884, with a review of the Bergrothia fauna of Georgia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)

Brachat

Volker

1 Assing

Volker

vassing.hann@t-online.de 2

Unaffiliated, Geretsried, Germany

Unaffiliated

Geretsried

Germany 2

Unaffiliated, Hannover, Germany

Unaffiliated

Hannover

Germany

Corresponding author: Volker Assing (vassing.hann@t-online.de).

Academic editor: Thomas Schmitt

2022

31 07 2022

72 1 105 113 346DCB86-0CA7-5BC0-97D0-130A778E5BE4 47138F75-BFFC-4B53-964B-44E62E57BA9F 01 06 2022 21 03 2022

Volker Brachat, Volker Assing

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

http://zoobank.org/47138F75-BFFC-4B53-964B-44E62E57BA9F

Abstract

Two species of Bergrothia Reitter, 1884, a small Caucasian genus of Amauropini, are described and illustrated: B. svanetica spec. nov. (Georgia: Svaneti region) and B. simplex spec. nov. (Northeast Turkey: Ordu, Giresun). Including the new species, the genus now includes a total of nine species distributed in Georgia (six species), Northeast Turkey (three species), and Azerbaijan (one species). Based on abundant material collected during seven field trips conducted to Georgia between 2016 and 2021, the partly allo- and partly sympatric distributions of the Bergrothia species in Georgia are clarified and mapped. All of them are confined to the west of the country.