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Issue: Vol. 5004 No. 4: 22 Jul. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-07-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5004.4.6
Page range: 577-586
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A new termitophilous genus and species of the tribe Amarygmini Gistel, 1848 from China (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

College of Marine Science and Biological Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, 53 Zhengzhou Road, Qingdao, 266042, P. R. China.
Fujian Academy of Forestry Sciences, Fuzhou, 350012, China.
Fujian Academy of Forestry Sciences, Fuzhou, 350012, China.
Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
College of Marine Science and Biological Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, 53 Zhengzhou Road, Qingdao, 266042, P. R. China.
termitophilous Amarygmini Termitocnemis new genus new species termites Oriental Region Asia Coleoptera

Abstract

A new genus and species, Termitocnemis huangi gen. et sp. nov., of the tenebrionine tribe Amarygmini Gistel, 1848 is described from Fujian Province, southeastern China. All specimens were collected from a healthy nest of the termite genus Nasutitermes Dudley, 1890, implying that this species is truly termitophilous. Transitional habitus characters of the new species shed further light on the evolution of amarygmine beetles from free-living to termitophily. Given the discovery of this new genus a revised key is provided to the Oriental genera of termitophilous Amarygmini.

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