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Issue: Vol. 2083 No. 1: 27 Apr. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-04-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2083.1.1
Page range: 1–18
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 31

New genera and species of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from China and South Korea

Zoology Department, Byelorussian State University, Minsk, Belarus
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, c/o Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 168 Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
Coleoptera Leaf beetles Chrysomelidae new species new genera skunk vine China South Korea

Abstract

Two new genera from China (Taumaceroides Lopatin and Yunnaniata Lopatin) and 11 new species (Smaragdina quadrimaculata Lopatin, S. oblongum Lopatin, Hyphaenia volkovitshi Lopatin, Arthrotus daliensis Lopatin, Taumaceroides sinicus Lopatin, Yunnaniata konstantinovi Lopatin, Calomicrus yunnanus Lopatin, C. minutissimus Lopatin, Hermaeophaga belkadavi Konstantinov, H. dali Konstantinov from China, and H. korotyaevi Konstantinov from South Korea) are described and illustrated. A key to Hermaeophaga species of Eurasia is presented. Since Hermaeophaga dali was collected feeding on Paederia foetida L. (Rubiaceae), which is an invasive noxious weed in the United States, this species has potential as a biological control agent of this weed.

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