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Issue: Vol. 4403 No. 1: 3 Apr. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-04-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.1.11
Page range: 186–200
Abstract views: 86
PDF downloaded: 4

New contributions to the knowledge of Chinese flea beetle fauna (III): revision of Meishania Chen & Wang with description of five new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)

School of Applied Chemistry and Biological Technology, Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, ARS, Washington DC, USA
Department of Entomology, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellayani P.O., Trivandrum—695 522, Kerala, INDIA.
School of Applied Chemistry and Biological Technology, Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China.
School of Applied Chemistry and Biological Technology, Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China.
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Coleoptera leaf beetles Alticini Bhutan China biodiversity

Abstract

The flea beetle genus Meishania Chen & Wang is revised and five new species—M. cangshanensis sp. nov., M. flavipennis sp. nov., M. fulvotigera sp. nov., and M. sichuanica sp. nov. from China and M. bhutanensis sp. nov. from Bhutan—are described. All species of Meishania are illustrated and a key to species is provided.

 

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