Laena baoshanica (lat.) Is a species of the black beetles of the genus Laena from the subfamily of the fluffy ( Lagriinae , Tenebrionidae ). Endemic of China. The species was named after the discovery of the type series: Baoshan ( Yunnan ) [1] .
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Distribution
China : Yunnan , Gaoligong Shan, Baoshan (3000–4500 m) [1] [2] .
Description
Small wingless black beetles, body length from 4.8 to 6.0 mm. It has large eyes and a fringed pronotum. 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) : Magazine. - 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 (Eng.) // 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.