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Issue: Vol. 5190 No. 2: 28 Sept. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-09-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.2.5
Page range: 257-266
Abstract views: 305
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Three new species of the genus Zaitzevia Champion, 1923 from China (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Macronychini)

1Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Shenyang, 110016, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Shenyang, 110016, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Coleoptera Insecta riffle beetles Zaitzevia Yunnan China

Abstract

Three new species of the genus Zaitzevia Champion, 1923: Zaitzevia muchenae sp. nov., Zaitzevia reniformis sp. nov., Zaitzevia gaoligongensis sp. nov. are described from Yunnan Province, China. Photos of habitus and aedeagus are provided. Zaitzevia chenzhitengi Jiang & Wang, 2020 is recorded from Shaanxi and Yunnan for the first time.

 

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