Revision of the genus Ptomaphagus Hellwig (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae) from Taiwan Island

By

Wang, Chengbin
Nishikawa, Masaaki
Perreau, Michel
Růžička, Jan
Hayashi, Yasuhiko

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2016

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

609

Pages

43-62

Subjects

Cholevinae , Leiodidae , new species , new synonym , Ptomaphagus , Taiwan , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.609.9327

 

Abstract

Ptomaphagus (s. str.) chenggongisp. n. and P. (s. str.) tingtingaesp. n. (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae, Ptomaphagini) are described from Taiwan Island. In addition, a new subjective synonym is proposed, P. (s. str.) yasutoshii Nishikawa, 1993 = P. (s. str.) smetanai Perreau, 1996, syn. n. Relevant morphological characters of the examined Ptomaphagus species are illustrated with colour plates, and their known distributions are mapped.