Nabozhenko M.V., Bekchanov N.Kh., Bekchanov Kh.U.
A new species of the genus Philhammus Fairmaire, 1871 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Uzbekistan
Number: 481, Pages: 1 - 6
A new species of darkling beetles of the genus Philhammus Fairmaire, 1871 is described from Amudarya bank, Khorezm Region, Uzbekistan: Ph. dilaramae Nabozhenko et N. Bekchanov, sp. n. This first representative of the genus in the country belongs to the nominotypical subgenus and most similar to Pre-Caspian Ph. zaitsevi G.S. Medvedev, 1979. The new species differs from the latter in the structure of genae, eyes and pronotum.