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Issue: Vol. 4121 No. 3: 9 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.3.5
Page range: 311–318
Abstract views: 64
PDF downloaded: 2

Agabus abaensis sp. nov., a peculiar species of the confinis-group from central China (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Agabinae)

Kosmonautů 359, CZ-460 05 Liberec, Czech Republic.
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ-193 00 Praha 9–Horní Počernice, Czech Republic.
Coleoptera Dytiscidae Agabinae confinis-group Palearctic Region China taxonomy new species

Abstract

Agabus (Acatodes) abaensis sp. nov., from northern Sichuan and south-western Gansu provinces (China) is described and its relevant diagnostic characters are illustrated. The new species is, with some hesitation, classified within the A. confinis species group. Agabus abaensis sp. nov. differs from all species in the group by the combination of the following characters: elytral sculpture with considerably large, distinctly double reticulation in both sexes, and male anterior protarsal claw dentate—the characters resembling some species of the A. arcticus species group. The systematic position of the new species is briefly discussed.

 

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