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Contributions to Entomology

CTE

0005-805X 2511-6428

Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

10.3897/contrib.entomol.72.e87237

87237

Research Article

Coleoptera

Biogeography Systematics

A new species of Acrolocha from North Iran (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae)

Assing

Volker

vassing.hann@t-online.de 1

Unaffiliated, Hannover, Germany

Unaffiliated

Hannover

Germany

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

Academic editor: Thomas Schmitt

2022

31 07 2022

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Volker Assing

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Abstract

A new species of the Holarctic omaliine genus Acrolocha Thomson, 1858 from Gilan province, Northwest Iran, is described, illustrated, and distinguished from other West Palaearctic congeners. The genus now includes a total of 16 species, seven of which are distributed in the West Palaearctic region.