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Issue: Vol. 4576 No. 1: 1 Apr. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-04-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.9
Page range: 162–170
Abstract views: 64
PDF downloaded: 4

Two new species of comb-clawed beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae) from Yunnan, China

The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Prov., China
The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Prov., China
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae Alleculinae Alleculini Bobina Loricula taxonomy Oriental Region

Abstract

Two new alleculine species, Bobina cuspidenta sp. nov. and Loricula unidentata sp. nov., are described and illustrated from Yunnan, China. Keys to the species of the genera Bobina and Loricula are also given.

 

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