Hycleus cichorii ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Pan, Zhao & Ren, Guodong, 2018, Taxonomic revision of the subfamily Meloinae (Coleoptera: Meloidae) from Xizang, China, with description of a new species, Zoological Systematics 43 (1), pp. 66-88 : 84

Hycleus cichorii ( Linnaeus, 1758) ( Fig. 17 )

Meloe cichorii Linnaeus, 1758: 419 . Type locality: “ Cichoriis totius orientis” ( China) . Type depository: LSUK .

Mylabris cichorii: Fabricius, 1775: 261 .

Mylabris (Euzonabris) cichorii: Kuzin, 1954: 358 .

Mylabris cichorii ab. formosensis Kaszab, 1959: 438. Type locality: “ Formosa : Kagi ” ( Taiwan, China) . Type depository: HNHM .

Mylabris (Euzonabris) cichorii ab. postscutellomaculata Kaszab, 1960: 259. Type locality: “ Kwangtung : Kwangchou ” (Guangdong, China) . Type depository: IZCAS .

Hycleus cichorii: Bologna, 2008: 386 .

Distribution. China: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Taiwan, Hong Kong; Japan; Vietnam; Laos; Thailand; India; Nepal.

Remarks. Pan et al. (2011) wrongly recorded this species in Xizang. It was actually a clerical error.

Funding This research was supported by the following grants: the Construction Foundation for Comprehensive Strength Promotion of Universities in Mid-western China to Hebei University, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31572309, 31702040), the Postdoctoral Research Foundation of Hebei Province (B2015003007), and the Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application (14967611D).

Acknowledgements We wish to thank Prof. Hongzhang Zhou and Dr. Hongbin Liang (IZCAS), Prof. Xinpu Wang (NXU), Prof. Marco A. Bologna (University of “Roma Tre”, Rome, Italy), Dr. Ottó Merkl (HNHM) and Dr. Max Barclay (BMNH) for permission to study the Meloidae preserved in their collections. In particular, we are grateful to Prof. Aimin Shi (CWNU) and Dr. Hu Li (CAU) for the present of some specimens. Finally, we thank to all persons who collected the specimens from Xizang for their hard field work.

Figures

Figures 13–25. Habitus, dorsal view. 13. Lytta taliana Pic. 14. Meloe servulus Bates. 15. Meloe proscarabaeus proscarabaeus Linnaeus. 16. Meloe scabrus sp. nov. 17. Hycleus cichorii (Linnaeus). 18. Hycleus dorsetiferus Pan, Ren & Wang. 19. Hycleus medioinsignatus (Pic). 20. Hycleus phaleratus phaleratus (Pallas). 21. Pseudabris hingstoni (Blair). 22. Pseudabris latimaculata Pan & Bologna. 23. Pseudabris longiventris (Blair). 24. Pseudabris przewalskyi (Dokhtouroff). 25. Pseudabris regularis Pan & Bologna.