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Issue: Vol. 4312 No. 2: 29 Aug. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.2.12
Page range: 381–393
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 5

Coptus Wollaston (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae): A genus new to China with descriptions of two new species

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, CHINA.
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, CHINA. State Key Laboratory of IMPIR of China, 25 Beisihuan Xilu, Beijing 100080, CHINA
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY 10024-5192, USA
Coleoptera new record Cossoninae weevils taxonomy

Abstract

The genus Coptus Wollaston is recorded for the first time in mainland China with the description of two new species, Coptus brevirostris sp. nov, and Coptus vitreous sp. nov. A key to the known species from the Palearctic and Oriental regions of the genus is presented and illustrations of diagnostic features of the new species are provided.

 

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