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Published: 2016-12-30
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A new species of Larinus Dejean (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from China

Ph. D. (Professor), Atatürk University, Faculty of Agriculture, Plant Protection Department, Erzurum, TURKEY
Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
Larinus Lixinae Curculionidae new species China Palaearctic Region.

Abstract

Based on specimens in the Natural History Museum (London), a new species of the genus Larinus Dejan, 1821 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae), Larinus barclayi sp. nov., is described from China. The new species is assigned to the subgenus Phyllonomeus Gistel, 1856, compared with closely related species, and colour digital photographs of morphological characters are presented.