Three new species of the genus Corymbitodes Buysson, 1904 from Nepal and India with a description of the male of Corymbitodes kambaitiana Fleutiaux, 1942 (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

RAINER SCHIMMEL; DARIUSZ TARNAWSKI

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.4

Issue: Vol. 3925 No. 4: 3 Mar. 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-03-03

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.4

Page range: 551–561

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**Three new species of the genus Corymbitodes Buysson, 1904 from Nepal and India with a description of the male of Corymbitodes kambaitiana Fleutiaux, 1942 (Coleoptera: Elateridae)**

RAINER SCHIMMEL⁺⁻
DARIUSZ TARNAWSKI⁺⁻

Wiesenstraße 6, D-66957 Vinningen, Germany.

Division of Invertebrate Biology, Evolution and Conservation, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 63-77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland.

entomology taxonomy Corymbitodes Buysson new species South Asia

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Abstract

In the present paper we introduce three new species of the genus Corymbitodes Buysson, 1904 from Nepal and from Northern India and provide the description of the male of C. kambaitiana Fleutiaux, 1942. No species of Corymbitodes was recorded from Nepal or India previously. The new species are C. bengalensis sp. nov. (India), C. chassaini sp. nov. (India), C. nepalensis sp. nov. (Nepal). C. kambaitiana Fleutiaux, 1942 was originally described based on female material from Myanmar. Here we describe the male based on material from Ganesh Himal in Nepal.