First record of the genus Pectapalochrus Tshernyshev, 2016 (Coleoptera, Malachiidae) from China

By

Tong, Junbo
Tshernyshev, Sergei
Liu, Haoyu
Yang, Yuxia

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-05-10

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

11

Pages

1--9

Subjects

Apalochrini , China , Cleroidea , new record , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e104877
eLocator: e104877

 

Abstract

Pectapalochrus Tshernyshev, 2016 is a small genus belonging to the tribe Apalochrini in the family Malachiidae (Coleoptera, Cleroidea), with four currently known species: P. omega (Evers, 1965) from Mongolia, P. armenus (Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1978) from Armenia, P. pictus (Motschulsky, 1860) from Russia and P. pectinicornis (Erichson, 1840) from Russia and Mongolia.<br> Pectapalochrus Tshernyshev, 2016 is newly recorded from China upon the discovery of P. omega (Evers, 1965) from Ningxia Autonomous Region. The morphological characters of the adult are re-described in detail with illustrations of external appearance and relevant characters.