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Issue: Vol. 4526 No. 4: 3 Dec. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-12-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4526.4.10
Page range: 589–599
Abstract views: 160
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Description of two new species of Dima Charpentier, 1825 from China (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae)

School of Applied Chemistry and Biological Technology, Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China. College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China.
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 17. listopadu 50, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic. Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalder Strasse 90, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany.
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 17. listopadu 50, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Institute of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400716, P. R. China.
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.
Coleoptera click beetles Dimini Neodima diversity morphology

Abstract

Dima guizhouensis Ruan, Kundrata & Qiu sp. nov. and Dima xiaolongi Ruan, Kundrata & Qiu sp. nov. are described from Guizhou and Hunan Provinces in China, respectively. Both species are easily distinguishable from most of their congeners by having a strongly convex pronotum and relatively long elytra with carinate interstria VI. The only superficially similar species is D. tianmuensis Qiu & Kundrata in Qiu et al. (2018) from Zhejiang Province. Habitus and main diagnostic characters are figured for both new species, and their systematic placement is discussed. The discovery of these species brings the total number of Dima species in China to 13.

 

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