A new species of the genus Blaptogonia from the Himalayas with four DNA markers (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Blaptini)

By

Li, Xiumin Li
Bai, Xinglong
Ren, Guo-Dong.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

773

Pages

69-78

Subjects

Biology , darkling beetles , DNA sequence , taxonomy , Tenebrioninae

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.773.24656

 

Abstract

A new species of the genusBlaptogoniaMedvedev, 1998,B.zhentangasp. n., is described from the southern Himalayas of China. Two fragments of mitochondrial protein-coding genes (COI, Cytb), one fragment of mitochondrial ribosomal RNA gene (16S), and one fragment of nuclear rRNA gene (28SD2) of the new species were obtained. A key to the known species of the genus is presented.