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
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Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
38759
10.11646/zootaxa.4127.1.4
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The
Clinterocera scabrosa
species group
Body small, usually shorter than
17 mm
, black or dark gray; elytra flat, usually with white or beige tomentum on disc and/or lateral portion; terminal spiracle slightly convex; pygidium rounded; tarsi short and slender; apical tooth of inferior ridge of protibia large in male, small in female.
In northern
China
, these species are easily collected under stones near ant nests and from inside ant nests, but are difficult to find in south
China
forests. Most species are distributed in
China
, reported from Liaoning, Jilin, Beijing,
Tianjin
, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan (
Liu 1932
;
Chang & Shao 1980
;
Su & Gu 1986
;
Chen
et al.
1990
;
Liu et
al.
1997
;
Ma 1997
;
Wang et
al.
1999
;
Zhang 1999
;
Ren
et al.
2009
;
Krajčik 2011
;
Li
et al.
2015
); also found in neighboring
Russia
(Far East),
Korea
Peninsula, and northeast
India
(
Arrow 1910
;
Niijima & Kinoshita 1923
;
Medvedev 1964
;
Sabatinelli 1984
;
Kalinina 1989
;
Sakai & Nagai 1998
;
Kim 2001
).