Two new species of the genus Epuraea Erichson, 1843 from China (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae, Epuraeinae)

Mengjiao Zhao; Min Huang; Xingke Yang; Alexander G Kirejtshuk

doi:10.3897/zookeys.445.7163

Two new species of the genus Epuraea Erichson, 1843 from China (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae, Epuraeinae)

Zookeys. 2014 Oct 13:(445):107-15. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.445.7163. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Mengjiao Zhao¹, Min Huang¹, Xingke Yang², Alexander G Kirejtshuk³

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
² Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
³ Zoological Institute RAS, Universitetskaya nab., 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia ; CNRS UMR 5202, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CP 50, Entomologie, 45, rue Buffon, F- 75005 Paris, France.

Abstract

Two new species belonging to the consobrina-group of the subgenus Micruria Reitter, 1875 (genus Epuraea Erichson, 1843), Epuraea (Micruria) lanuginosasp. n. and Epuraea (Micruria) pulliginissp. n., found in Sichuan Province, China, are described. Pictures and details of structures important for diagnostics of the new species, including external characters and genitalia are given.

Keywords: China; Coleoptera; Epuraea; Micruria; Nitidulidae; Sichuan; new species.