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A New Species of the Afrotropical Ground-Beetle Genus Kenyacus (Coleoptera, Carabidae: Harpalini) from the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda

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A new stenolophine species Kenyacus elvenisp. n. is described from the south-eastern part of the Rwenzori Mountains, Kasese District, Uganda. The new species was found a little apart from other members of Kenyacus occurring in these mountains and at lower (1688–1903 m) altitudes. It is easily recognized by having fronto-clypeal suture slightly rounded, rather deeply impressed and almost arcuately continued into the deepened frontal furrows, and by elytral striae very superficial and partly indistinct in basal half. Based on combination of its characters, the new species is included in the angustatus group sensu Kataev, 2019.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am very grateful to Vladimir I. Gusarov (ZMUN) for providing very interesting material collected by him and Hallvard Elven (ZMUN) in the Rwenzori Mountains, and to Kirill V. Makarov (Moscow) for making the habitus and microsculpture photographs of the new species.

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The study was performed within the frame of State project no. AAAA-А19-119020690101-6 and supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 19-04-00565).

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  1. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    B. M. Kataev

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Correspondence to B. M. Kataev.

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Kataev, B.M. A New Species of the Afrotropical Ground-Beetle Genus Kenyacus (Coleoptera, Carabidae: Harpalini) from the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda. Entmol. Rev. 100, 95–100 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873820010091

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