A new species of Larinus Dejean (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from China

Levent Gültekin; Christopher H. C. Lyal

doi:10.12976/jib/2016.4.24

Issue: Vol. 4 No. 24 (2016)

Type: Article

Published: 2016-12-30

DOI: 10.12976/jib/2016.4.24

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A new species of Larinus Dejean (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from China

Levent Gültekin⁺⁻
Christopher H. C. Lyal⁺⁻

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.

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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.