Description of the unknown males of three Chinese <em>Meligethes</em> (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Meligethinae)
Simone Sabatelli, Paolo Audisio, Josef Jelínek, Meike Liu, Huang Min
Abstract
In this paper we present the description of male genitalia and additional information on taxonomy of three recently described and poorly known Chinese endemic members of the genus Meligethes Stephens, 1830, Meligethes (Odonthogethes) brassicogethoides Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015, M. (O.) inexpectatus Liu, Huang, Cline, Sabatelli & Audisio, 2017, and M. (O.) tricuspidatus Liu, Huang, Cline & Audisio, 2018.
Topics & Concepts
Cline (biology)Taxonomy (biology)BiologyZoologyBotanyDemographyPopulationSociologyColeoptera Taxonomy and DistributionForest Insect Ecology and ManagementColeoptera: Cerambycidae studies