Five new species of the leaf-beetle genus Monolepta Chevrolat (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) from China

In this study, five new species of the leaf-beetle genus Monolepta Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) are described from China: M.albipunctatasp. nov., M.alticolasp. nov., M.bivittatasp. nov., M.mengsongensissp. nov., and M.rubripennissp. nov. A key and catalogue to the 68 Chin...

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Autores principales: Lei, Qi-long, Xu, Si-yuan, Yang, Xing-ke, Nie, Rui-E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8387305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34512090
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1056.65335
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Sumario:In this study, five new species of the leaf-beetle genus Monolepta Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) are described from China: M.albipunctatasp. nov., M.alticolasp. nov., M.bivittatasp. nov., M.mengsongensissp. nov., and M.rubripennissp. nov. A key and catalogue to the 68 Chinese species of Monolepta with the second and third antennomeres of equal length are given as well as photographs of the habitus and aedeagus of the new species and type habitus images of 37 known species.

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