Bietia simillima Fairmaire, 1898

Jákl, Stanislav, Král, David & Kubáň, Vítězslav, 2010, A review of the genus Bietia with a description of a new species from Yunnan, China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Goliathini), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (2), pp. 517-528 : 526

Bietia simillima Fairmaire, 1898

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Bietia simillima Fairmaire, 1898: 386 . Type locality: Western China, western Sichuan (‘Se-Pin-Lou-Chan (Thibet)’).

Bietia simillima: SCHENKLING (1921) : 81 (catalogue); WINKLER (1929): column 1119 (catalogue); MEDVEDEV (1964): 37 (description); MIKŠIĆ (1977): 381 (description); SAKAI & NAGAI (1998): 234 –235 (catalogue note in Japanese), 382 (note in English), pl. 143, fig. 668; SMETANA (2006): 301 (catalogue).

Bietia (Bietia) simillima: KRAJČÍK (1998) : 19 (catalogue).

Material examined. CHINA: SICHUAN: ‘Su-Tchuen / Chass.Thibétains / 1897 [p] // Bietia simillima (Fairmaire) [h] / J. Ph. Legrand det. [p] VII – [h] 2007 [p] // Bietia / simillima Fairm. / comp. with type / St. Jákl det., 2006 [p]’ (1 J, MNHN); ‘Su-Tchuen / Chass. Thibétains / 1897 [p] // Bietia / simillima Fairm. / Cotype [h] [with red right side label] // Cotype [p] [yellow-framed round label] // Bourgoin Coll. / B. M. 1938-252 [p]’ (1 J, BMNH).

Remark. The male specimen of Bietia simillima from BMNH is figured in SAKAI & NAGAI (1998: plate 143, fig. 668).

Figures

Figs. 1–4. Habitus, dorsal view. 1 – Bietia naxiorum sp. nov., holotype; 2 – B. naxiorum sp. nov., allotype; 3 – B. rudicollis Fairmaire, 1898 (non-type specimen, MNHN); 4 – B. simillima Fairmaire, 1898 (non-type specimen, MNHN).

Figs. 9–14. Parameres (9, 11, 13 – dorsal view; 10, 12, 14 – lateral view). 9, 10 – Bietia naxiorum sp. nov., holotype; 11, 12 – B. rudicollis Fairmaire, 1898 (non-type specimen, MNHN); 13, 14 – B. simillima Fairmaire, 1898 (non-type specimen, MNHN).