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Issue: Vol. 5374 No. 4: 20 Nov. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-11-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.4.1
Page range: 451-486
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Tetraserica Ahrens, 2004 of continental Southeast Asia: new records, new species, and an updated key to species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae: Sericini)

Museum A. Koenig; Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB); Adenauerallee 127; 53113 Bonn; Germany
Museum A. Koenig; Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB); Adenauerallee 127; 53113 Bonn; Germany
Museum A. Koenig; Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB); Adenauerallee 127; 53113 Bonn; Germany; University of Salzburg; Salzburg; Austria
Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam
Institute of Earth and Environment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Yanxiang Road 97#; Yanta District; Xi’an 710061; P.R. China
Coleoptera Scarab beetles chafers continental Se Asia new records new species

Abstract

An update to the taxonomy and distribution of species of Tetraserica Ahrens, 2004 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) is given. We present new records of 36 taxa and describe 13 new species from continental Southeast Asia: Tetraserica bartolozzii Ahrens, new species, T. bankrang Ahrens, new species, T. sraeken Ahrens, new species, T. yongbelar Ahrens, new species, T. hubleyi Ahrens, new species, T. hornburgi Ahrens, new species, T. khemoi Ahrens, new species, T. weigeli Ahrens, new species, T. yucheni Liu, Li & Ahrens, new species, T. fabriziae Liu, Li & Ahrens, new species, T. gialaiensis Pham & Ahrens, new species, T. phamanhi Pham & Ahrens, new species, and T. semikontumensis Pham & Ahrens, new species. The male genitalia of the new species are illustrated and diagnostic characters to related species are given. The key to species of continental Southeast Asia is updated.

 

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