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Issue: Vol. 4344 No. 1: 6 Nov. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-11-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4344.1.10
Page range: 169–173
Abstract views: 101
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Two new species of the genus Laena Dejean (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Lagriinae) from Hong Kong

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany. Contributions to Tenebrionidae no. 143. For no. 142 see: Annales Zoologici 67, 2017.
2F, 102 Wang Tong, Mui Wo, Lantau, Hong Kong, China
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae Lagriinae Laena new species Hong Kong Zhejiang China

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Laena Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Lagriinae) are described from Hong Kong: Laena hongkongica sp. n. and Laena walkeri sp. n. These constitute the first record of the genus from Hong Kong, as a species previously described from nearby area Laena ovipennis Schuster, 1926, in fact originated from Zhejiang province nearby Shanghai. Both species from Hong Kong possess a wide variation in body length, which is quite unusual for this genus.

 

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