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Issue: Vol. 4963 No. 1: 16 Apr. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-04-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4963.1.6
Page range: 138–148
Abstract views: 84
PDF downloaded: 15

Three new species of Hygrodromicus Tronquet, 1981 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini) from China

Lab of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China.
XiZang agricultural and Animal Husbandry College, Linzhi 860000, P.R. China.
Lab of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China.
Lab of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China.
Taxonomy Staphylinidae Omaliinae Hygrodromicus new species China

Abstract

Three new species of the genus Hygrodromicus Tronquet, 1981 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini) from China are described and illustrated: H. carbonarius Cheng, Li & Peng sp. n., H. danlangi Cheng, Li & Peng sp. n. (Xizang), and H. shaanxiensis Cheng, Li & Peng sp. n. (Shaanxi). The genus Hygrodromicus is recorded from China for the first time. A key and distribution map of the Chinese species of Hygrodromicus are provided.

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