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Published: 2012-02-13
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Two new species of soft-winged flower beetles of the genus Kuatunia Evers, 1945–48 (Coleoptera, Malachiidae) from China and northeastern Russia

Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street, 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia
Coleoptera Malachiidae Kuatunia new species new locality China Yakutia Taimyr Russia

Abstract

Two new malachiid beetle species of the genus Kuatunia Evers are described: K. nordica sp. n., from Taimyr peninsula,northeastern Russia, and K. wolongensis sp. n., from China, Wolong Nature Reserve. Figures of male habiti, elytral ap-pendices, genitalia, and a distribution map for newly recorded species are given, and a determination key to all species of the genus is provided.

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