New and little-known species of Meligethes Stephens, 1830 from China (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
Audisio Paolo, Jelínek Josef, Cooter Jonathan
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45: 111-127, 2005
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Abstract: The genus Meligethes Stephens, 1830 (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Meligethinae)
comprises several anthophagous species attacking a wide range of wild and
cultivated flowering plants. We describe four new species from China (Meligethes
chlorocupreus sp. nov., M. difficiloides sp. nov., and M. abditus sp. nov.,
members of the M. difficilis-group; M. bocaki sp. nov., a member of the M.
planiusculus-group), and provide distributional or ecological data on other
Chinese species Meligethes sp. cf. praetermissus Easton, 1957 and M. kasparyani
Kirejtshuk, 1984. An updated provisional check-list of Chinese Meligethes of
about 60 species is presented.
Key words: Coleoptera, Nitidulidae, Meligethes, new species, China, host-plants, check-list