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Issue: Vol. 5528 No. 1: 23 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5528.1.37
Page range: 594-606
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Description of larvae of three Opatrini species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Blaptinae) from China, with molecular species delimitation and diagnoses

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application of Hebei Province; College of Life Sciences; Institute of Life Science and Green Development; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application of Hebei Province; College of Life Sciences; Institute of Life Science and Green Development; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application of Hebei Province; College of Life Sciences; Institute of Life Science and Green Development; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application of Hebei Province; College of Life Sciences; Institute of Life Science and Green Development; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application of Hebei Province; College of Life Sciences; Institute of Life Science and Green Development; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Coleoptera darkling beetles immature stage species delimitation morphology

Abstract

Opatrini Brullé, 1832 is the most species-rich tribe in the subfamily Blaptinae Leach, 1815. In this study, a preliminary phylogenetic relationship among 14 species of five genera of Opatrini is hypothesized based on mitochondrial gene (COI) fragment. Based on the phylogenetic topology and the results of three molecular species delimitation analyses, three larval specimens are assessed for the adults. Additionally, the larvae of these three species are described and illustrated: Gonocephalum bilineatum (Walker, 1858), Gonocephalum gracile (Bates, 1879), and Mesomorphus latiusculus Chatanay, 1917.

 

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