Biodiversity patterns of cavernicolous ground-beetles and their conservation status in the Azores, with the description of a new species: Trechus isabelae n. sp. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae)

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1478, 2007, Pages 21-31

  Borges, Paulo A V ^a,b   Oromí, Pedro ^c   Serrano, Artur R M ^d   Amorim, Isabel R ^a,e   Pereira, Fernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b GESPEA Grupo de Estudo do Património Espeleológico dos Açores   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Azores; Cave beetles; Conservation; Ecology; Taxonomy; Thalassophilus; Trechus

Indexed keywords

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; THALASSOPHILUS; TRECHUS;

EID: 34249844267     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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