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Issue: Vol. 5609 No. 3: 21 Mar. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-03-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5609.3.8
Page range: 430-436
Abstract views: 137
PDF downloaded: 9

Description of a new flightless species of Rismethus Fleutiaux from China (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae)

Engineering Research Center for Forest and Grassland Disaster Prevention and Reduction; Mianyang Normal University; Mianxing West Road; 621000; Mianyang; China
Coleoptera new species Elateroidea flightlessness Agrypnini click beetle

Abstract

A new flightless click-beetle species, Rismethus jiangi sp. nov., is described from Zhejiang and Anhui Provinces, China. It is similar to Rismethus ryukyuensis Ôhira in its stout body and absence of hind wings, but can be distinguished by its light coloration, the sharper spines on the hind angles of pronotum, as well as more acute of the widest part of metacoxal plate. The diagnostic characters of the new species are illustrated, and key to the Rismethus species from China is provided.

 

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