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Issue: Vol. 4809 No. 1: 6 Jul. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-07-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4809.1.10
Page range: 165–176
Abstract views: 63
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Description of a new subgenus and four new species of Gnaptorina Reitter, 1887 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Blaptini) from China

The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China.
The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China.
The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China.
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae Gnaptorinina Gnaptorina new subgenus new species China

Abstract

A new subgenus and four new species of the genus Gnaptorina Reitter, 1887 from China are described and illustrated: Austroptorina subgen. n. (type species Gnaptorina longicornis Li & Ren, 2004), G. (A.) polita sp. n. (Xizang), G. (B.) ampliptera sp. n. (Sichuan), G. (G.) artipenis sp. n. (Sichuan) and G. (G.) crenata sp. n. (Sichuan, Xizang). The new subgenus distributes in southeastern Xizang and western Hengduan Mountains of China, antennae and legs slender and long, protibiae slightly emarginate from middle to apex on inner side and weakly curved to inner side apically, ventral surface of protarsomeres 1–2 and mesotarsomere 1 with hairy brush in males.

 

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