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Issue: Vol. 4121 No. 2: 8 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.2.1
Page range: 101–116
Abstract views: 82
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Four new species of Meligethes Stephens from China and additional data on other species of the genus (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae)

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ-193 00 Horní Počernice, Czech Republic
Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie“Charles Darwin”, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Borelli 50, I-00161 Rome, Italy
Coleoptera taxonomy distribution host-plants pollen beetles

Abstract

Four new species of Meligethes Stephens, 1830, M. (s.str.) macrofemoratus (Shaanxi, Ningxia), M. (s.str.) yak (NW Sichuan), M. (s.str.) auropilosus (Tibet) and M. (Odontogethes) aurorugosus (Tibet) spp. nov., are described and illustrated from China. Diagnostic characters distinguishing these new species from closely related taxa are discussed. The previously unknown male of Meligethes (s.str.) aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 from Sichuan and the previously unknown female of M. (Odontogethes) scrobescens Chen, Lin, Huang & Yang, 2015 from Sichuan are also described. Additional data are also presented on the geographic distribution and life history of other Chinese Meligethes species.

 

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