Meligethes matronalis Audisio & Spornkraft, 1990

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 : 282

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AC99E2BA-2F02-4813-B8A9-CBEDA1D1F678

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7172798

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scientific name

Meligethes matronalis Audisio & Spornkraft, 1990
status

 

Meligethes matronalis Audisio & Spornkraft, 1990 ( Figs 11–12 View Figs 9–16 , 70–74 View Figs 70–74 )

Meligethes matronalis Audisio & Spornkraft, 1990: 72 ; Kirejtshuk, 1997: 265; Erichson, 1999: 124; Audisio et al., 2001: 92; Lason, 2004: 21.

Meligethes subaeneus Sturm,1845: 11 .

Distribution. China (Sichuan), Italy, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Austria, Turkey, Caucasus.

Kirejtshuk, A. G. 1997. New Palaearctic nitidulid beetles, with notes on synonymy and systematic position of some species (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 6: 255 - 268.

Lason, A. 2004. Epuraea (Epuraea) muehli Reitter, 1908 and Meligethes matronalis Audisio et Spornkraft, 1990 - the beetle species new to the Polish distribution of Kateretidae and Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) in Poland. Wiadomosci Entomologiczne, 23 (1): 21 - 28.

Gallery Image

Figs 9–16. Habitus, ♂. 9–10. Meligethes merkli Kirejtshuk. 11–12. M. matronalis Audisio & Spornkraft, 1990. 13–14. M. aeneus (Fabricius, 1775). 15–16. M. auripilis Reitter, 1889. Scale bars=0.5 mm.

Gallery Image

Figs 70–74. Meligethes matronalis Audisio & Spornkraft, 1990, ♂. 70. Head. 71. Front tibia. 72. Prosternal process. 73. Tegmen, ventral view. 74. Medial lobe of aedeagus, ventral. Scale bar=0.5 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Nitidulidae

Genus

Meligethes