A review of the genus Bietia with a description of a new species from Yunnan, China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Goliathini)
Jákl Stanislav, Král David, Kubáň Vítězslav
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50(2): 517-528, 2010
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Abstract: A new species of the goliathine genus Bietia Fairmaire, 1898, B. naxiorum sp.
nov., is described from the mountains in northwestern Yunnan (China). It is
compared with two other species of the genus known so far, B. rudicollis
Fairmaire, 1898 and B. simillima Fairmaire, 1898. The folloving new synonymy
is proposed: Bietia rudicollis Fairmaire, 1898 = Atropinota funkei Heller, 1923,
syn. nov. A lectotype is designated for A. funkei. Dorsal habitus and
diagnostic characters on the male external genitalia of all three species of
Bietia are illustrated. A diagnosis of the genus and a key to species are
provided. The systematic position of Bietia among the known genera of the
Oriental and Palaearctic Goliathini is shortly discussed. A brief description
of the habitat of B. naxiorum sp. nov. as well as notes on its ground-dwelling
habits are given; a ground-dwelling behaviour of adults is recorded for the
first time in the Asian Goliathini.
Key words: Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae, Goliathini, Coryphocerina, Bietia, Atropinota, Petrovitzia, taxonomy, new species, new synonymy, lectotype designation, identification key, ground-dwelling behaviour, China, Palaearctic Region