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Issue: Vol. 4731 No. 4: 10 Feb. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-02-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4731.4.5
Page range: 522–530
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Taxonomic notes on the tribe Dryptini Bonelli, 1810 with description of a new genus and species from China (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Dryptini)

Riccardo Sciaky, via Fiamma 13, I-20129 Milano (Italy)
Alexander Anichtchenko, Daugavpils University, Institute of Life Science and Technologies, Vienibas iela 13, Daugavpils LV-5401, Latvia
Coleoptera Carabidae Dryptini China new genus new species

Abstract

Megadrypta mirabilis n. gen. n. sp. from Guangdong (China) is described. The new genus is distinguished from all known genera by a combination of large body size, pronotal bead well marked, sloping shoulders, reduced hind wings, smooth claws and stylomeres, and a large number (7–8) of periscutellar pores. Some remarks are made upon the relationships with the other genera of Dryptini, raising to the genus rank the taxa Nesiodrypta Jeannel, 1949 and Prionodrypta Jeannel, 1949, formerly regarded as subgenera of Drypta Latreille, 1796. A new key to all the genera of this tribe is proposed.

 

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