A new species of the genus Orthotemnus Wollaston, 1873 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Cossoninae) from China

By

Omar, Youssef
Zhang, Runzhi
Davis, Steven R., 1983-

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

472

Pages

103-116

Subjects

China , key , Morphology , new record , plectra , Proecini , systematics , Weevil

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.472.8033

 

Abstract

A new species, Orthotemnus longitarsus sp. n., is described from China, representing the first record of the genus Orthotemnus Wollaston, 1873 from China. Illustrations of diagnostic features of the new species and a key to all six species of the genus Orthotemnus (including O. reflexus Wollaston, O. disparilis Pascoe, O. filiformis Champion, O. expansus Hustache and O. ulmi Zherichin) are provided. All type specimens of the new species are deposited in the National Zoological Museum in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.