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Issue: Vol. 4111 No. 5: 18 May 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.5.4
Page range: 584–590
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 2

Two new species of the subgenus Cardiobioramix Kaszab (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Bioramix Bates) from the Sichuan Province, China

College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400700, China
The State Nature Reserve «Prisursky», Lesnoj, 9, Cheboksary 428034, Russia
Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation, Institute of Rare Animals & Plants, China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan 637009, China
Coleoptera darkling beetles Platyscelidini taxonomy identification key

Abstract

Two new species of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae: Platyscelidini) belonging to the subgenus Cardiobioramix of the genus Bioramix are described. The first one, B. (C.) jinchuanensis sp. nov. known from the Chinese Province Sichuan Jinchuan, is characterized by the elongated parameres which are uniquely curved near the apex. The second one, B. (C.) maoxianensis sp. nov. described from Sichuan Maoxian and can be distinguished from the closely related B. (C.) szetschuana, B. (C.) kulzeri and B. (C.) subaenescens by the basally parallel parameres. A new identification key is provided to all known Chinese representatives of the subgenus Cardiobioramix.

 

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