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Issue: Vol. 5239 No. 4: 13 Feb. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-02-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5239.4.8
Page range: 578-584
Abstract views: 266
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A new species of Dascillus Latreille (Coleoptera: Dascillidae) from Hubei, China

Forewarning and Management of Agricultural and Forestry Pest, Hubei Engineering Technology Center, Agricultural College, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434023, China.
Forewarning and Management of Agricultural and Forestry Pest, Hubei Engineering Technology Center, Agricultural College, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434023, China. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
Hubei Insect Resources Utilization and Sustainable Pest Management Key Laboratory, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China.
soft-bodied plant beetle Dascillus Palearctic Region China Shennongjia taxonomy new species Coleoptera

Abstract

A new species, Dascillus emarginatus sp. nov., from Shennongjia Nature Reserve, Hubei, China is described. The new species is very similar to D. attenuatus Jin, Xie & Zhu, 2017, from which it can be distinguished by the greater body length, scutellar shield emarginate anteriorly, abdominal ventrites with glabrous spots on each side in both genders, apex of female ventrite 5 emarginate in the middle, and the shape of genitalia. The illustrations of the morphological characters and a distribution map are given.

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