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Issue: Vol. 1808 No. 1: 23 Jun. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-06-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1808.1.2
Page range: 33–43
Abstract views: 89
PDF downloaded: 3

Three new species of the genus Euscelophilus Voss (Coleoptera: Attelabidae) from China

Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang Donglu, Kunming, Yunnan, 650223 P. R. China Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang Donglu, Kunming, Yunnan, 650223 P. R. China
Coleoptera Attelabidae China Euscelophilus genitalia new species synonymies taxonomy

Abstract

Euscelophilus Voss currently contains 14 recognisable species, all occurring in China but two also in Korea and one each also in Myanmar and Cambodia. In this paper, three additional species from China (E. longispinus, E. gaoligongensis and E. caperratus) are described as new to science, and the male genitalia of two described species (E. gibbicollis and E. denticulatus) are illustrated for the first time. Euscelophilidius Legalov, 2003, Cupreuscelophilus Legalov, 2005 and Euscelophiloides Legalov, 2007 are newly synonymised with Euscelophilus Voss, Euscelophilus mayongi (Legalov & Liu, 2005) comb. n. is consequently transferred from Cupreuscelophilus to Euscelophilus and E. jingpingensis Liang, 1994 stat. rev. and E. yongshanensis Liang, 1994 stat. rev. are reinstated as valid species from synonymy with E. chinensis (Schilsky) and E. camelus Voss, respectively.

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