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Issue: Vol. 5528 No. 1: 23 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5528.1.38
Page range: 607-612
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Two new species of the genus Laena Dejean (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Lagriinae) from southern China

The Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation of the Ministry of Education; College of Life Sciences; China West Normal University; 637009; Nanchong; Sichuan Province; China
College of Life Sciences; Hebei University; 071002; Baoding; Hebei province; China
Coleoptera Laenini Laena new taxa Guangdong Guangxi

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Laena Dejean, 1821 from southern China were described and illustrated: Laena nana sp. nov. from Nanling Nature Reserve of Guangdong and L. dayaoshanensis sp. nov. from Dayaoshan Nature Reserve of Guangxi. A key to Laena species from Guangdong and Guangxi, China, is given.

 

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