Meloe (Meloe) modestus Fairmaire, 1887

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 : 76

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.201807

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5459777

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scientific name

Meloe (Meloe) modestus Fairmaire, 1887
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Meloe (Meloe) modestus Fairmaire, 1887

Meloe modestus Fairmaire, 1887: 129 . Type locality: “ Yunnan ” ( China) . Type depository: MNHN .

Meloe (Meloe) modestus: Bologna, 2008: 402 .

Material examined from Xizang. None.

Distribution. China: Xizang ( Bologna, 2008) (Markam ( Tan, 1981; Wang et al., 2003), Zogang ( Tan, 1981; Wang et al., 2003)), Shanxi, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan.

Remarks. According to the point of M. A. Bologna (personal communication), this species should belong to an undetermined subgenus or the subgenus Eurymeloe . However, this result has not been published. Therefore, we reserve this species in the nominate subgenus tentatively.

Bologna, M. A. 2008. Meloidae. In: Lobl, I., Smetana, A. (eds), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (Vol. 5: Tenebrionoidea). Apollo Books, Stenstrup. pp. 384 - 390.

Fairmaire, L. 1887. Coleopteres des voyages de M. G. Revoil chez les Somalis et dans l'interieur du Zanguebar. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, (6) 7: 69 - 186.

Tan, J. J. 1981. Coleoptera: Meloidae. In: The comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang plateau, CAS (ed.), Insects of Xizang (Vol. I). Science Press, Beijing. pp. 405 - 416.

Wang, B. H., Tan, R., Zhang, Y. H., Wang, C. L., Shi, Q. G. 2003. Investigation of blister beetles from Xizang. Tibet's Science and Technology, 121: 33 - 35, 40.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Meloidae

Genus

Meloe