Chrysolina (Arctolina), Kontkanen, 1959

Mikhailov, Yu. E., 2021, New and little known representatives of the genus Chrysolina Motschulsky, 1860 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from China, Far Eastern Entomologist 443, pp. 6-16 : 12

Subgenus Arctolina Kontkanen, 1959

Arctolina Kontkanen, 1959 : 31. Type species: Chrysomela birulai Jacobson, 1910 [= Chrysolina subsulcata (Mannerheim, 1853) ], by original designation.

COMPOSITION. Arctolina is arcto-boreo-montane subgenus with 19 species (Kippenberg, 2010a) known from the Arctic territories, the Urals, Altai, Saur-Tarbagatai Mountains and Dzhungarian Alatau, where the species diversity hotspot is situated. Two species from the subgenus are known from China (Yang et al., 2015): Ch. borochorensis Lopatin, 2000

and Ch. boreosinica Lopatin, 2004 , and both were found in Tien-Shan Mountains. The new species described below is the first representative of Arctolina in Mongolian Altai in general and in the Chinese part of Altai.