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Issue: Vol. 4695 No. 1: 6 Nov. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-11-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4695.1.8
Page range: 90–94
Abstract views: 62
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of Hygrogeus Mulsant & Rey, 1880 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini) from Xizang, China

Lab of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China.
1Lab of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China.
Coleoptera Taxonomy Omaliinae Hygrogeus new species Xizang China

Abstract

The first species of the genus Hygrogeus Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini) from China is described, under the name of Hygrogeus chinensis sp. n.. The type material has been collected from West Duoxiongla Mountain and Sejila Pass in Xizang, China; the habitus, aedeagus, mouthparts of the new species are illustrated.

 

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