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Issue: Vol. 4750 No. 2: 11 Mar. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-03-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.2.10
Page range: 269–276
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 7

Megarthrus of China. Part 1. Description of a new species resembling M. antennalis Cameron, 1941 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Proteininae)

Institute of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Case postale 6434 CH-1211 Genève 6, Switzerland.
Coleoptera Megarthrus new species China taxonomy Hengduan Mountains

Abstract

Megarthrus chujiao Liu and Cuccodoro sp. nov., from Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China is described and illustrated. It is the third record of the genus in the Hengduan Mountains, and the first endemic Megarthrus species from this temperate biodiversity hotspot. Megarthrus chujiao strongly resembles M. antennalis Cameron, 1941, from Nepal and North India, with which they form a new complex of species—the M. antennalis-complex within the predominantly Holactic and African M. depressus-supergroup of species.

 

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