Taxonomic review of Palearctic Eurypogon Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Artematopodidae), with a redescription of the only European species and descriptions of three new species from China
Author
Packova, Gabriela
0000-0001-7949-619X
gabriela.packova01@upol.cz
Author
Hájek, Jiří
0000-0001-5779-1542
jiri.hajek@nm.cz
Author
Geiser, Michael
0000-0002-9278-2358
m.geiser@nhm.ac.uk
Author
Kundrata, Robin
0000-0001-7949-619X
gabriela.packova01@upol.cz
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-04-16
5437
4
451
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5437.4.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5437.4.1
1175-5326
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Eurypogon schuhi
Packova & Kundrata, 2023
(
Figs 3C
,
8B
,
10E
,
12E
)
Eurypogon schuhi
Packova & Kundrata
in
Packova
et al.
, 2023: 9
.
Type
locality.
China
,
Hubei province
,
Dalaoshan
[
*̓ẇ
],
31°03′N
110°57′E
.
Type material.
Holotype
male (
NHMW
), labeled: “
China
, W
Hubei
,
9.–10. VI. 2004
,
Dalaoshan forest
park,
31.05N
110.95E
,
Jaroslav Turna
leg.“.
Diagnosis.
This species can be recognized based on the following combination of characters: head, pronotum, and elytra (
Figs 3C
,
8B
) more or less uniformly dark brown to blackish; male elytra 2.2 times as long as wide; elytral surface (
Fig. 10E
) relatively rough, elytral punctures coarse, moderately large, intervals between elytral punctures within single row usually 1.0–2.0 times puncture diameter; intervals between elytral punctures of different rows usually about 2.0–3.0 puncture diameter; aedeagus (
Fig. 12E
) without U-shaped phallobase, parameres relatively long, reaching about the place where median lobe is abruptly narrowed subapically.
Distribution.
This species is so far known only from the single specimen collected in Dalaoshan Forest Park, western
Hubei
,
China
(
Fig. 15
).