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Meligethes (Odonthogethes) ferruginoides Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelinek 2015

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Meligethes (Odonthogethes) ferruginoides Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015

Examined material. China, SICHUAN, LUDINg COUNTY, MOXI TOWN, MT. GONggA, HAILUOgOU, 2950–2970 m A.S.L., 29.575° 101.996667°, 22.vI.2017, LIU & AUDISIO LgT, bY SWEEpINg ON SHRUbS AT fOREST EDgES, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (NWAU, CAR-MZUR, NMPC); SICHUAN, LUDINg COUNTY, MOXI TOWN, MT. GONggA, SWALLOW-GULLY, 2450–2570 m A.S.L., 29.689167° 102.066944°, 23.vI.2017, LIU & AUDISIO LgT, ON Pyracantha fortuneana (MAXImOWICZ) H. L. LI (ROSACEAE), 3 ♂, 5 ♀ (NWAU, CAR-MZUR, NMPC, ARCC).

Distribution. CENTRAL AND SW CHINA (HUbEI, SICHUAN) (AUDISIO et al. 2015) (FIg. 6b).

Host-plants. CONCLUSIvE SpECIfIC HOST DATA REmAINS SOmEWHAT pRObLEmATIC, bUT SOmE ADULT SpECImENS HAvE bEEN COLLECTED (SEE AbOvE: SWALLOW-GULLY, MOXI TOWN, SICHUAN, JUNE 2017) ON fLOWERS Of THE SHRUb Pyracantha fortuneana (MAXImOWICZ) H. L. LI (ROSACEAE), WHICH WAS RECENTLY RECOgNIZED AS THE LIKELY LARvAL HOST-pLANT Of Meligethes (Odonthogethes) pseudochinensis AUDISIO, SAbATELLI & JELÍNEK, 2015 (FIg. 6 IN LIU et al. 2017). ADDITIONAL COLLECTINg EvENTS ARE NEEDED THAT fOCUS ON ObTAININg LARvAL mATERIAL.

Notes

Published as part of Liu, Meike, Huang, Min, Cline, Andrew Richard & Audisio, Paolo, 2018, New and poorly known Meligethes Stephens from China, with bionomical data on some species (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae), pp. 546-566 in Zootaxa 4392 (3) on page 561, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1196235

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  • Audisio, P., Sabatelli, S. & Jelinek, J. (2015) Revision of the pollen beetle genus Meligethes Stephens, 1830 (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae). Fragmenta entomologica, 46 (2014), 19 - 112. https: // doi. org / 10.4081 / fe. 2014.71