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Issue: Vol. 5471 No. 1: 17 Jun. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-06-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5471.1.10
Page range: 141-147
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New species and records of subgenus Aethina from China (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)

Biocontrol Engineering Laboratory of Crop Diseases and Pests of Gansu Province; College of Plant Protection; Gansu Agricultural University; Lanzhou 730070; China
Biocontrol Engineering Laboratory of Crop Diseases and Pests of Gansu Province; College of Plant Protection; Gansu Agricultural University; Lanzhou 730070; China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education; Entomological Museum; Northwest A&F University; Yangling; Shaanxi 712100; China
Coleoptera Aethina ColeopteraNitidulini Sap beetles Taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of sap beetles, A. (A.) similinconspicua sp. nov. and A. (A.) shizhuica sp. nov., of the subgenus Aethina Erichson, 1843 are described and illustrated from southwestern China. And four new species, A. (A.) cyaneipennis Grouvelle, 1903, A. (A.) dubitabilis Kireitshuk, 1986, A. (A.) kirejtshuki Jelínek, 1995, and A. (A.) lindskogi Jelínek & Kirejtshuk, 1986 are recorded for the first time from China.

 

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