Remarks on taxonomy of the genus Lytta Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera: Meloidae) with description of a new subgenus and two new species from Asia
A new subgenus Eolytta subg. n. (type species Cantharis luteovittata Kraatz, 1882) is described which includes L. luteovittata, L. kabakovi Kaszab, 1981, L. laeta Waterhouse, 1889, L. flavoangulata (Fairmaire, 1891), L. grumi Semenov, 1893 and L. rubrinotata Tan, 1981 distributed in the mount...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Science, Federal state budgetary institution
2016-07-01
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| Series: | Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13_AM%20Shapovalov.pdf |
| Summary: | A new subgenus Eolytta subg. n. (type species Cantharis luteovittata Kraatz, 1882) is described which includes L. luteovittata, L. kabakovi Kaszab, 1981, L. laeta Waterhouse, 1889, L. flavoangulata (Fairmaire, 1891), L. grumi Semenov, 1893 and L. rubrinotata Tan, 1981 distributed in the mountains of the Middle and Central Asia, and also L. skrylniki sp. n. (the last species is described from Afghanistan, Bamian Province). Lytta clematidis (Pallas, 1782), L. manicata (J. Sahlberg, 1903), L. poeciloptera (Semenov, 1893), L. fissicollis (Fairmaire, 1886) and L. rubra (Hope, 1831) are included in the subgenus Asiolytta Kaszab, 1962. Species Lytta (s. str.) medvedevi sp. n. is described from Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan; L. (s. str.) vesicatoria (Linnaeus, 1858) is recorded for the first time for China, L. (s. str.) togata Fischer von Waldheim, 1844 is recorded for the first time for Mongolia. |
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| ISSN: | 1814-3326 1814-3326 |