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Three new species and five new records within the genus Lilioceris (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Criocerinae) from China

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  • 1. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • 2. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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The Chinese species of Lilioceris are revised, and three new species are described from Tibet, China: Lilioceris zhentangensis Xu & Liang, sp. nov., Lilioceris medogensis Xu & Liang, sp. nov. and Lilioceris zayuensis Xu & Liang, sp. nov. Five species of Lilioceris are reported for China as new records: L. dromedarius (Baly, 1861), L. pulchella (Baly, 1859), L. semicostata (Jacoby, 1908), L. unicolor (Hope, 1831) and L. nepalensis Takizawa, 1989. Lilioceris seminigra (Jacoby, 1889) is proposed as a junior synonym of L. unicolor Hope, 1831. Redescriptions, habitus photographs, geographic distributions, host plants (if available) and habitats are provided for these species.

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