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Twenty-six New Species of Predaceous Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Carabidae) from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

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  • 1. Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; Email: dkavanaugh@calacademy.org; & Corresponding author: David H. Kavanaugh (dkavanaugh@calacademy.org)
  • 2. Department of Ecology and Systematics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 65, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland; Email: kjohannarainio@gmail.com

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Kavanaugh, David H., Rainio, Johanna (2016): Twenty-six New Species of Predaceous Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Carabidae) from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (7): 201-268, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13799439

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