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Issue: Vol. 4950 No. 1: 29 Mar. 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-03-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.1.12
Page range: 196–200
Abstract views: 86
PDF downloaded: 65

Description of the male of Pterorthochaetes yunnanensis Ballerio, 2014 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae: Ceratocanthinae)

College of Marine Science and Biological Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, 53 Zhengzhou Road, Qingdao, 266042, P. R. China.
Viale Venezia 45, Brescia, 2512, Italy.
zhengzhou Foreign Language School-New Fengyang Campus, 66 Cuizhu Street, Zhengzhou, 450001, P. R. China.
College of Marine Science and Biological Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, 53 Zhengzhou Road, Qingdao, 266042, P. R. China.
Coleoptera Scarabaeoidea Hybosoridae Ceratocanthinae

Abstract

The ceratocanthine genus Pterorthochaetes Gestro, 1898 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Hybosoridae) includes about 26 valid species and occurs from the eastern Himalaya (Nepal and India) and southern China to northern Australia (Queensland) and Vanuatu Islands (Paulian 1978, 1987; Ballerio 1999, 2006, 2013, 2014).

 

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