Mediaspace scheduled maintenance: Aug 25, 2026 07:00 - 12:00 AM. During this time, videos will be temporarily unavailable. Check status updates.

Publication

A new Hypselogenia Burmeister, 1840 from Angola (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae, Goliathini)

Michele De Palma
2022
Journal Articles

Abstract

Morphological and DNA barcoding analysis identify a new species in the Afrotropical genus Hypselogenia Burmeister, 1840. Hypselogenia hassoni sp. nov. is described from the Cuanza Sul Province of Angola. The new species belongs to the Hypselogenia geotrupina group and can be distinguished from both Hypselogenia geotrupina Billberg, 1817 and Hypselogenia billbergii Thomson, 1878 by a combination of external characters.

Official source

Michele De Palma
2022
Journal Articles

Abstract

Official source

Related concepts (4)

Species

In biology, a species (: species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour, or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined.

Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. Chinese characters are the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world. By virtue of their widespread current use throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as their profound historic use throughout the Sinosphere, Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world by number of users. The total number of Chinese characters ever to appear in a dictionary is in the tens of thousands, though most are graphic variants, were used historically and passed out of use, or are of a specialized nature.

Ring species

In biology, a ring species is a connected series of neighbouring populations, each of which interbreeds with closely sited related populations, but for which there exist at least two "end populations" in the series, which are too distantly related to interbreed, though there is a potential gene flow between each "linked" population and the next. Such non-breeding, though genetically connected, "end populations" may co-exist in the same region (sympatry) thus closing a "ring".