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Issue: Vol. 2014 No. 1: 18 Feb. 2009
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2009-02-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2014.1.7
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Micropodabrus Pic from Hainan, China, and a new name to replace M. coomani (Pic) (Coleoptera, Cantharidae)

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
Coleoptera Cantharidae

Abstract

The genus Micropodabrus was proposed by Pic (1920), with M. obscurus Pic as the type species, but received no additional attention until Wittmer’s (1982) revision. Later Wittmer systematically studied the faunas of the Himalaya  (1983), China and adjacent regions (Wittmer, 1988), and Taiwan (Wittmer, 1995). In 1997, Wittmer synonymized two genera, Fissocantharis Pic (1921) and Kandyosilis Pic (1929), and made Micropodabrus a much larger genus. Until now, this genus had 170 species restricted to Oriental region, of which 72 species were distributed in southern China. In this study, we report a distinctive new species, Micropodabrus imparicornis sp. nov. from Hainan, where no cantharid species was previously recorded. Also, we correct a homonym, that is, Micropodabrus coomani (Pic, 1935) which was transferred from Kandyosilis by Wittmer (1989), is now a homonym of M. coomani (Pic, 1920); the proposed replacement name is M. wittmeri nom. nov.

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