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Issue: Vol. 4034 No. 2: 29 Oct. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-10-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4034.2.9
Page range: 375–389
Abstract views: 67
PDF downloaded: 3

Description of three new species related to Themus (Haplothemus) coriaceipennis (Fairmaire, 1889) (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) 

The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Province, China.
The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Province, China.
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Coleoptera taxonomy Cantharidae Themus Haplothemus new species China

Abstract

The male of Themus (Haplothemus) coriaceipennis (Fairmaire, 1889) is discovered and described for the first time. Three new species related to this species are described from China: T. (H.) rectus sp. nov., T. (H.) bimaculaticollis sp. nov. and T. (H.) licentimimus sp. nov., which are provided with the illustrations of habitus and genitalia of both sexes and abdominal sternites VIII of female. A key to the species related to T. (H.) coriaceipennis is also provided.