A contribution to the genus Didrepanephorus Wood-Mason, 1878 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae)

By

Zhao, Ming-Zhi
Liu, Weixin

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2022-4-4

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1092

Pages

31--45

Subjects

China , Didrepanephorina , lectotype , Myanmar , new combination , new record , new species , Rutelini , Scarabaeoidea

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1092.75831

 

Abstract

The diagnostic characters of the generaDidrepanephorusWood-Mason, 1878 andFruhstorferiaKolbe, 1894 are clarified. The following nomenclatorial acts are proposed:Didrepanephorus birmanicus(Arrow, 1907),comb. nov.,Didrepanephorus fukinukii(Muramoto & Araya, 2000),comb. nov.,Fruhstorferia baron(Prokofiev, 2013),comb. nov., andFruhstorferia anthracinaOhaus, 1903,comb. rev.Didrepanephorus tangzhaoyangiZhao & Liu,sp. nov.is described from Yunnan Province, China. A lectotype is designated forFruhstorferia birmanicaArrow, 1907.Didrepanephorus mizunumaiNagai & Hirasawa, 1991 is reported from Myanmar for the first time.