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Résumé :
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A new tenebrionid (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) species of the genus Leptodes Dejean, 1834, Leptodes (Mesoleptodes) talebii Eshraghi Mofrad & Nabozhenko sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Khuzestan Province, Iran. This new species is compared with two close species, L. khanensis Tahami, Merkl & Sadeghi, 2016 and L. shapouri Tahami, Merkl & Sadeghi, 2016. Leptodes (Mesoleptodes) lederi Reitter, 1889 is recorded for Iran for the first time. Images of habitus and the aedeagus of Tapenopsis costata Solier, 1843 are presented for the first time. Data on distribution of several previously described species of the tribe Leptodini Lacordaire, 1859 are supplemented. With the inclusion of the species described here and new record, the number of taxa Leptodes in Iran is increased to 11 species. http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:025B0AD8-F58B-4200-A420-DD50A3768DEC
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