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Issue: Vol. 4695 No. 1: 6 Nov. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-11-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4695.1.7
Page range: 83–89
Abstract views: 72
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Two new species of the genus Gnaptorina Reitter from the Hengduan Mountains, China (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Blaptini)

The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.
The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.
These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae Tenebrioninae Blaptini Gnaptorina new species China

Abstract

Two new species of nominal subgenus of Gnaptorina Reitter, 1887 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Blaptini), G. (G.) acutangula sp. nov., G. (G.) crassitibia sp. nov., are described from the Hengduan Mountains, Western Sichuan province of China. A key to the known species of the subgenus Gnaptorina is provided.

 

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