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

2023-5-10

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

11

Pages

e104877--

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

 

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.
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.