Laena baiorum (lat.) Is a species of the black beetles of the genus Laena from the subfamily of the hairy ( Lagriinae , Tenebrionidae ). Endemic of China. The species is named for the Bai people living in the area of the discovery of the type series [1] .
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Content
- 1 Distribution
- 2 Description
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
Distribution
China : Yunnan , Diancang Shan (2800 m) [1] [2] .
Description
Small wingless black beetles, body length from 8.0 to 9.0 mm. It differs in dense, but fine puncture of the pronotum (in the closely related species Laena alesi it is rare and large). Pronotum is flat and sub-square. They live in the terrestrial forest layer. The species was first described in 2008 by the German coleopterologist Wolfgang Schwaller (Dr. Wolfgang Schawaller; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde , Stuttgart , Germany ) [1] [2] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Wolfgang Schawaller. The genus Laena Latreille (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in China (part 2), with descriptions of 30 new species and a new identification key (Contributions to Tenebrionidae, no. 69) (English) // Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A (Biologie) : Journal. - Stuttgart: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, 2008. - Vol. Neue Serie 1. - P. 387-411. - ISSN 2193-5513 .
- ↑ 1 2 Schawaller, W. The genus Laena Latreille (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in China, with descriptions of 47 new species (English) // Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie): Journal. - Stuttgart: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, 2001. - Vol. 632. - P. 1-62. - ISSN 2193-5513 .
Literature
- Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. II. Coleoptera and fan-winged. / under total. ed. Corr. G. Ya. Bey-Bienko . - M. - L .: "Science", 1965. - S. 356-381. - 668 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 89.). - 5700 copies.
- Schawaller, W. The genus Laena Latreille in Nepal, with taxonomic and faunistic notes on species from the adjacent Himalayas (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) (English) // Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie): Journal. - Stuttgart: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, 2002. - Vol. 641. - P. 1-69. - ISSN 2193-5513 .
- Schawaller, W. New species of the genus Laena Latreille (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Southeastern Asia (English) // Zootaxa : Journal. - 2006. - Vol. 1325. - P. 369–384.
- Schuster, A. (1916): Monographie der Coleopterengattung Laena Latreille. - Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 66: 495-629; Wien.