Meligethes (Meligethes) aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015

Liu, Meike, Huang, Min, Cline, Andrew Richard & Audisio, Paolo, 2018, New and poorly known Meligethes Stephens from China, with bionomical data on some species (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae), Zootaxa 4392 (3), pp. 546-566 : 549

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.3.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B6592836-2F1E-4B9D-9DD0-CF2BBA2C1CC3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5967049

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/144587D0-8109-7274-42A0-D5E1442FE205

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scientific name

Meligethes (Meligethes) aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015
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Meligethes (Meligethes) aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015

Examined material. China, SHAANXI, MT . HUA, 1250 m A.S.L., 34.495833° 110.079722°, 12.vI.2017, P. AUDISIO & M. LIU LgT, 2 ♂, 5 ♀ (NWAU, CAR-MZUR).

Distribution. CENTRAL CHINA (SHAANXI, SHANXI). THIS SpECIES WAS pREvIOUSLY KNOWN fROm A SmALL SERIES Of SpECImENS COLLECTED IN SHAANXI AND SHANXI, mOSTLY IN THE AREA Of THE MT. HUA (AUDISIO et al. 2015) ( FIg. 5b View FIGURE 5 ).

Host-plants. THE AbOvE SEvEN SpECImENS fROm MT. HUA, SHAANXI , WERE COLLECTED ON fLOWERINg SHRUbS Of Rosa Sp. (SpECIfIC IDENTIfICATION pENDINg) , LIKELY Rosa giraldii CRépIN, 1897 ( ROSACEAE ) . THIS CHARACTERISTIC Rosa SpECIES pOSSESSES SmALL pINK fLOWERS ( FIg. 3f View FIGURE 3 ) , AND OCCURS ON THE WHITISH gRANITIC CLIffS AS TYpICAL Of MT . HUA. LARvAL HOSTpLANTS RELATIONSHIpS CANNOT bE ESTAbLISHED WITH CERTAINTY, bUT IT IS LIKELY THAT THIS SpECIES, DISTRIbUTED fROm SICHUAN TO SHANXI, REpRESENTS THE TRUE HOST Of M. aurifer . THE SpECImENS ARE pRESENT ON THIS LIKELY HOST-pLANT IN NARROW vALLEYS AND gRANITE CLIffS AT INTERmEDIATE ALTITUDES (CA. 1200–1500 m).

Taxonomic remarks. THE NEWLY COLLECTED fRESH mATERIAL ENAbLED US TO vISUALIZE THAT THE DORSAL pUbESCENCE Of M. aurifer EXHIbITS A DEgREE Of vARIAbILITY , WITH SOmE SpECImENS CHARACTERIZED bY UNIfORm DARK gOLDEN TO bROWNISH pUbESCENCE ON THE pRONOTUm AND ELYTRA ( AS IN THE TYpE SpECImENS) , AND OTHER SpECImENS pOSSESS mORE OR LESS pALER (CREAmY) LONgITUDINAL STRIpES ON THE ELYTRA, SImILAR TO THOSE KNOWN IN THE CLOSELY RELATED Meligethes (M.) aureolineatus AUDISIO, SAbATELLI & JELÍNEK, 2015 fROm SICHUAN ( FIg. 5b View FIGURE 5 ) . THE mALE gENITALIA Of THESE TWO SpECIES ARE SImILAR bUT AppARENTLY EASY TO DISTINgUISH (SEE FIgS. 9–12 IN LIU et al. 2016); HOWEvER, THE fEmALE OvIpOSITORS mAY ALSO DISTINgUISH THESE TWO AppARENTLY gEOgRApHICALLY vICARIANT TAXA, bUT UNfORTUNATELY THE OvIpOSITOR Of M. aureolineatus REmAINS THUS fAR UNKNOWN.

HUA

Universidad de Antioquia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Nitidulidae

Genus

Meligethes

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