Description of the unknown males of three Chinese <em>Meligethes</em> (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Meligethinae)

Simone Sabatelli; Paolo Audisio; Josef Jelínek; Meike Liu; Min Huang

doi:10.4081/fe.2020.464

Fragmenta entomologica (Nov 2020)

Description of the unknown males of three Chinese <em>Meligethes</em> (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Meligethinae)

Simone Sabatelli,
Paolo Audisio,
Josef Jelínek,
Meike Liu,
Min Huang

Affiliations

Simone Sabatelli: Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza Università degli Studi di Roma
Paolo Audisio: Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza Università degli Studi di Roma
Josef Jelínek: Department of Entomology, National Museum, Praha
Meike Liu: Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University - Yangling, Shaanxi; College of Agriculture, Yangtze University - Jingzhou, Hubei
Min Huang: Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University - Yangling, Shaanxi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/fe.2020.464
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 52, no. 2

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In this paper we present the description of male genitalia and additional information on taxonomy of three recently described and poorly known Chinese endemic members of the genus Meligethes Stephens, 1830, Meligethes (Odonthogethes) brassicogethoides Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015, M. (O.) inexpectatus Liu, Huang, Cline, Sabatelli & Audisio, 2017, and M. (O.) tricuspidatus Liu, Huang, Cline & Audisio, 2018.

Published in Fragmenta entomologica

ISSN: 0429-288X (Print); 2284-4880 (Online)
Publisher: University La Sapienza of Rome
Country of publisher: Italy
LCC subjects: Science: Zoology
Website: https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa02/fragmenta_entomologica

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