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A new species of the genus Adelotopus Hope from northern Queensland, Australia
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Baehr, Martin (2007): A new species of the genus Adelotopus Hope from northern Queensland, Australia. Spixiana 30 (1): 25-28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16898602
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- Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/6A520203003BFF935BD01726FBE9955E (URL)
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.16898604 (DOI)
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.16898606 (DOI)
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- Very few species of the rubiginosus -group in the sense of Baehr (1997, 2002) have been recorded so far from tropical north-eastern Queensland, and those species usually were discovered in open sclerophyll forest that in northern Queensland is mainly dominated by a number of bark shedding Eucalyptus species which are the shelter of most pseudomorphine species in Australia. The discovery of the new species in a rain forest grown river valley thus seems surprising, because very few pseudomorphine species thus far were recorded from rain forest, and certainly no one of the genus Adelotopus nor even of the rubiginosus- group. This group of presently 25 described species (Baehr 1997, 2002) is mainly distributed in the drier parts of Australia and has its highest species diversity in semiarid southern Australia. Therefore, I guess that even in the mentioned rain forest covered type locality of A. parrotti the specimens were collected rather from eucalypts growing in patches of open forest in the Mulgrave River Valley, or along the rivers course, than actually in rain forest.