{"title":"A new species of the genus Embia Latreille, 1825 (Insecta, Embioptera) from the Madonie Regional Natural Park (Sicily, Italy).","authors":"Paolo Fontana","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5418.3.4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Embia minapalumboi n. sp., a new species of the genus Embia Latreille, 1925, was collected during an excursion in the Madonie Regional Natural Park that took place at the conclusion of the XXVII Italian National Congress of Entomology celebrated in Palermo from 12 to 16 June 2023. In the location of discovery, at an elevation of just under 1400 m and therefore unusual for European Embioptera, the new species was found to be very rare and for this reason most of the few juvenile specimens found were kept in breeding by the author. The new species was compared with all 36 species known to date for the genus and in particular with the 21 species from the Mediterranean area and the 8 known from Europe. The author also presents the general distribution of all species of the genus. Embia tyrrhenica, Stefani, 1953 is also reported for the Madonie and reconfirmed for Sicily.</p>","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5418 3","pages":"255-267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zootaxa","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5418.3.4","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ZOOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Embia minapalumboi n. sp., a new species of the genus Embia Latreille, 1925, was collected during an excursion in the Madonie Regional Natural Park that took place at the conclusion of the XXVII Italian National Congress of Entomology celebrated in Palermo from 12 to 16 June 2023. In the location of discovery, at an elevation of just under 1400 m and therefore unusual for European Embioptera, the new species was found to be very rare and for this reason most of the few juvenile specimens found were kept in breeding by the author. The new species was compared with all 36 species known to date for the genus and in particular with the 21 species from the Mediterranean area and the 8 known from Europe. The author also presents the general distribution of all species of the genus. Embia tyrrhenica, Stefani, 1953 is also reported for the Madonie and reconfirmed for Sicily.
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