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Issue: Vol. 5528 No. 1: 23 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5528.1.14
Page range: 164-183
Abstract views: 88
PDF downloaded: 91

Studies on the Rhagophthalmidae (Coleoptera) from China, part II. Three new species of Diplocladon Gorham, 1883

Engineering Research Center for Forest and Grassland Disaster Prevention and Reduction; Mianyang Normal University; 166 Mianxing West Road; Mianyang 621000; Sichuan; China
Department of Zoology; Faculty of Science; Palacky University; 17. listopadu 50; 77146 Olomouc; Czech Republic; Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut; Eberswalder Strasse 90; 15374 Müncheberg; Germany
Coleoptera Distribution Elateroidea morphology Oriental Realm rhagophthalmids taxonomy

Abstract

Three new rhagophthalmids of the genus Diplocladon Gorham, 1883 are described from China, i.e. D. maai sp. nov. from Fujian, D. nezha sp. nov. from Yunnan, and D. wukong sp. nov. from Chongqing. Diplocladon atripenne Yiu, 2017 is redescribed and first recorded from Guangdong and Guangxi. Illustrations of the habituses and diagnostic characters of all four Chinese species are provided; a key to Chinese species of Diplocladon based on males is compiled; and a map is presented to exhibit their distributions.

 

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