A contribution to the genus Didrepanephorus Wood-Mason, 1878 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae)

Ming-Zhi Zhao; Wei-Xin Liu

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1092.75831

A contribution to the genus Didrepanephorus Wood-Mason, 1878 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae)

Zookeys. 2022 Apr 4:1092:31-45. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1092.75831. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Ming-Zhi Zhao¹, Wei-Xin Liu¹

Affiliation

¹ College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China South China Agricultural University Guangzhou China.

Abstract

The diagnostic characters of the genera Didrepanephorus Wood-Mason, 1878 and Fruhstorferia Kolbe, 1894 are clarified. The following nomenclatorial acts are proposed: Didrepanephorusbirmanicus (Arrow, 1907), comb. nov., Didrepanephorusfukinukii (Muramoto & Araya, 2000), comb. nov., Fruhstorferiabaron (Prokofiev, 2013), comb. nov., and Fruhstorferiaanthracina Ohaus, 1903, comb. rev. Didrepanephorustangzhaoyangi Zhao & Liu, sp. nov. is described from Yunnan Province, China. A lectotype is designated for Fruhstorferiabirmanica Arrow, 1907. Didrepanephorusmizunumai Nagai & Hirasawa, 1991 is reported from Myanmar for the first time.

Keywords: China; Didrepanephorina; Myanmar; Rutelini; Scarabaeoidea; lectotype; new combination; new record; new species.

Ming-Zhi Zhao, Wei-Xin Liu.