G. it. Ent., 12 (56): 275-279
May 2011
Una nuova specie di Parena Motschulsky, 1859 dello Zambia
(Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini)
di
S. FACCHINI
Abstract - A new species of Parena Motschulsky, 1859 from Zambia (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini) - The description of a new species of Parena Motschulsky, 1859 from Zambia is given. Parena valeriae n. sp. is the 48th species of this genus, and the eighth species from the Afrotropical Region known so far. The new species is closely related to P. ferruginea (Chaudoir, 1878), but the former can be easily distinguished from the latter by its darker colour, each elytron with a blackish longitudinal band in the anterior half of intervals 6-8 (without band in P. ferruginea), reddish-brown antennae (antennae clearly bicoloured in P. ferruginea, with antennomeres 1-3 and base of 4 yellowish, and 5-11 and apex of 4 black), tarsi reddish-brown instead of blackish, anterior lateral seta of the pronotum placed on the external margin (placed much more inside, in the lateral groove of the pronotum in P. ferruginea). The habitus and male genitalia of the new taxon are illustrated.
