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Issue: Vol. 5529 No. 1: 24 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5529.1.6
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Lethrus (Heteroplistodus) kucerai (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Lethrinae), a new species from China

Kieferndamm 10; D–15566 Schöneiche bei Berlin; Germany
Department of Zoology; Faculty of Science; Charles University; Viničná 7; CZ–128 00 Praha 2; Czechia
Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences; St. Petersburg; Universitetskaya naberezhnaja 1; Russia; Athens Institute for Education and Research; 7 Eptanisou Street; Vrilissia; Athens; Greece
Entomological Laboratory Institute of Biology; Mongolian Academy of Science; Peace Avenue-54B; Bayanzurkh; Ulaanbaatar-13330; Mongolia
Coleoptera Scarabaeoidea lethrus Heteroplistodus taxonomy new species lectotype designation distribution China Mongolia Palaearctic region

Abstract

Lethrus (Heteroplistodus) kucerai Hillert, Král & Bagaturov, new species, from Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi provinces of China is described. Relevant diagnostic characters (e.g. genae margin, surface of head, pronotum and elytra, lateral margin of pronotum and elytra, apical spur of protibia) are compared with the morphologically similar and probably closely related species L. (H.) potanini Jakovlev, 1889. Relevant diagnostic characters including the aedeagus of both species are depicted. Lectotype for Lethrus conformis Frivaldszky, 1890 is designated. Distribution of both species from China and Mongolia is summarized and mapped.

 

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