Three new species of the subgenus Leipopleura Seidlitz from Tibet, China (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Bioramix Bates)

Yun-Chun Li; L V Egorov; Ai-Min Shi

doi:10.3897/zookeys.609.8250

Three new species of the subgenus Leipopleura Seidlitz from Tibet, China (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Bioramix Bates)

Zookeys. 2016 Aug 8:(609):29-41. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.609.8250. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Yun-Chun Li¹, L V Egorov², Ai-Min Shi³

Affiliations

¹ College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400700, China.
² The State Nature Reserve «Prisursky», Lesnoj, 9, Cheboksary 428034, Russia.
³ Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation, Institute of Rare Animals & Plants, China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan 637009, China.

Abstract

Three new species of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) belonging to the subgenus Leipopleura of the genus Bioramix Bates, 1879, Bioramix (Leipopleura) baqenensis Li & Egorov, sp. n., Bioramix (Leipopleura) nyainrongensis Li & Egorov, sp. n., and Bioramix (Leipopleura) banbarensis Li & Egorov, sp. n. are described from the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. Additionally, a new identification key is provided to all known Chinese representatives of the subgenus Leipopleura.

Keywords: Darkling beetles; Platyscelidini; identification key; taxonomy.