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Neoserica fanjingshanica Ahrens 2003

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China; & Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China;
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China;
  • 3. Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum A. Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Description

Neoserica (s. str.) fanjingshanica Ahrens, 2003

Material examined

1 ♂ ‘ Mt. Pinglongshan, Fulong, Guangxi, 21.IV. 1998, 650 m, leg. Qiao Gexia’ (IZAS), 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀ ‘ China, Guizhou prov., ~ 650 m, Jiangkou (ca 50 km SW), 27° 32.83’ N, 108°36.83’ E, Shidu vill. env., 29.vi.–6.vii.2001, C.Holzschuh leg.’ (CP), 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ ‘ China, Guizhou prov., Leishan (NE), Leigong Shan, (E slope),

Fangxiang, 13.–24.vi.2001, 26°26.59’ N, 108°16.53’ E, ~ 900 m, C. Holzschuh leg.’ (CP).

Remarks

The species was known only from Ghuizhou province; it is for the first time recorded for Guangxi (Figure 4).

Notes

Published as part of Liu, Wan-Gang, Bai, Ming, Yang, Xing-Ke & Ahrens, Dirk, 2015, New species and records of the Neoserica (sensu stricto) group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini), pp. 2379-2395 in Journal of Natural History 49 (39) on pages 2390-2391, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1034208, http://zenodo.org/record/4000144

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CP , IZAS
Event date
1998-04-21 , 2001-06-13 , 2001-06-29
Verbatim event date
1998-04-21 , 2001-06-13/24 , 2001-06-29/07-06
Scientific name authorship
Ahrens
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Neoserica
Species
fanjingshanica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Neoserica fanjingshanica Ahrens, 2003 sec. Liu, Bai, Yang & Ahrens, 2015

References

  • Ahrens D. 2003. Zur Identitat der Gattung Neoserica Brenske, 1894, nebst Beschreibung neuer Arten (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae, Sericini). Kol Rundsch. 73: 169 - 226.