Meloe elegantulus Semenov & Arnoldi, 1934

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 : 79

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.201807
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scientific name	Meloe elegantulus Semenov & Arnoldi, 1934
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Meloe elegantulus Semenov & Arnoldi, 1934: 215 . Type locality: “ Tibet inter.: ad fluv. Dza-tshu systematis fl. Yang-tse-kiang” (source section of the Yangzi river , Xizang, China) . Type depository: ZIN .

Material examined from Xizang. None.

Distribution. China: Xizang (Semenov & Arnoldi, 1934; Bologna, 2008).

Remarks. According to the original description of Semenov & Arnoldi (1934), the species has the shape of pronotum typical in Meloe (Meloe) , but its antennomeres V–VII are not modified in both sexes, which is conspicuously different to the condition of species of the nominate subgenus of Meloe . Meanwhile, these two characters are not belong to any subgenus of Meloe . The subgeneric assignment should be confirmed in future.