Taxonomy and natural history of the myrmecophilous genus Clinterocera Motschulsky, 1858 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) from China and adjacent regions: definition of species group and revision of the C. discipennis species group
Author
Qiu, Jian-Yue
Author
Xu, Hao
text
Zootaxa
2016
4127
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81
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journal article
38759
10.11646/zootaxa.4127.1.4
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The
Clinterocera discipennis
species group
Body comparatively large, usually longer than
17 mm
; body color usually black and red (orange); pronotum usually red (orange); dorsal surface mat; elytra flat, with numerous setiferous punctures; terminal spiracle slightly convex; pygidium surface glabrous; tarsi comparatively slender.
This species group comprises two species distributed in south
China
(
Ma 1992
,
1993a
,
1995
,
2002
b, 2004;
Li 2004
;
Sasaki 2007
;
KrajĨik 2011
), and
Laos
and
Vietnam
(
Paulian 1961
;
Sakai & Nagai 1998
;
Sakai 2008
).