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Issue: Vol. 5004 No. 4: 22 Jul. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-07-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5004.4.7
Page range: 587-597
Abstract views: 452
PDF downloaded: 30

Three new species of the genus Hexarhopalus Fairmaire, 1891 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Cnodalonini) from China

College of Marine Science and Biological Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, 53 Zhengzhou Road, Qingdao, 266042, P. R. China.
College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1 Weigang, Nanjing, 210095, P. R. China.
School of Automotive and Traffic Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, 212001, P.R. China.
Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
College of Marine Science and Biological Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, 53 Zhengzhou Road, Qingdao, 266042, P. R. China.
China Cnodalonini Darkling beetles Leprocaulus rotten wood Coleoptera

Abstract

Three new species of the genus Hexarhopalus Fairmaire, 1891 are described and figured from China: Hexarhopalus (Hexarhopalus) yunnanensis sp. nov. from Yunnan, Hexarhopalus (Hexarhopalus) zhuxiangi sp. nov. from Guangxi, and Hexarhopalus (Leprocaulus) nanlingensis sp. nov. from Guangdong. A revised key is provided to the species of Hexarhopalus from China.

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