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Issue: Vol. 3999 No. 3: 11 Aug. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-08-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.3.6
Page range: 413–420
Abstract views: 64
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Lamiogethes and a new species of Meligethes from China (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 Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education,Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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
Cucujoidea Taxonomy Odontogethes Pollen Beetles

Abstract

A new species of Lamiogethes Audisio & Cline, 2009, L. nyingchiensis sp. nov., and a new species of Meligethes Stephens, 1830, M. (Odontogethes) scrobescens sp. nov. are described and illustrated from China. The differences between these new species and closely related species are discussed. The materials examined are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (IZAS).