Meligethes alani Kirejtshuk, 1988 New

Lin, Xiao-Li, Chen, Ying, Huang, Min & Yang, Xing-Ke, 2015, A new species of the genus Meligethes Stephens (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae) from China, Zoological Systematics 40 (3), pp. 268-289 : 269-273

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https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.20150304

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Meligethes alani Kirejtshuk, 1988 New
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Meligethes alani Kirejtshuk, 1988 New record to China ( Figs 3–4 View Figs 1–8 , 50–54 View Figs 50–54 )

Meligethes alani Kirejtshuk, 1988: 79 .

Description. Length 2.5 mm, breadth 1.3 mm, height 0.8 mm. Body long oval, black and rather shining; head and pronotum with short and sparse grey white pubescence somewhat longer than distances among their insertions. Elytra

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© Zoological Systematics, 40(3): 268–289

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© Zoological Systematics, 40(3): 268–289 slightly shorter than their combined width, both sides of elytra curved, sharply narrowing distad to almost transverse at apices. Prosternum gently convex along the middle, prosternal process elongated and gradually widened with apex broadly rounded, its broadened part distinctly broader than antennal club. Tegmen and median lobe (penis trunk) sclerotised, emarginated at apex of tegmen, median lobe long and slender, nearly rectangular.

Material examined. 1♂, China, Heilongjiang, Yichun , 6 June 1971, leg. Xue-Zhong Zhang.

Distribution. China (Heilongjiang), Brazil (Natal).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Nitidulidae

Genus

Meligethes

Loc

Meligethes alani Kirejtshuk, 1988 New

Lin, Xiao-Li, Chen, Ying, Huang, Min & Yang, Xing-Ke 2015
2015
Loc

Meligethes alani

Kirejtshuk 1988: 79
1988
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