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Heptophylla gongshana Bezděk & Král, n. sp. from China (Yunnan) and a Checklist of the Tribe Heptophyllini (Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
by Aleš Bezděk, David Král, Yi-Ping Luo and Yuan-Yuan Lu
Taxonomy 2025, 5(4), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy5040052 - 23 Sep 2025
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Heptophylla gongshana Bezděk & Král, n. sp. from Yunnan, China, is described. The new species, conspicuous in the genus Heptophylla Motschulsky, 1858, by its black body and octomerous antennal club in males, is compared with similar congeners. An iconography including the male genitalia [...] Read more.
Heptophylla gongshana Bezděk & Král, n. sp. from Yunnan, China, is described. The new species, conspicuous in the genus Heptophylla Motschulsky, 1858, by its black body and octomerous antennal club in males, is compared with similar congeners. An iconography including the male genitalia of the new species and the type material of the Heptophyllini taxa described by You-Wei Zhang and found in the Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, is provided. An updated checklist of Heptophyllini (Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) is presented, and the validity of the tribe is discussed. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diversity and Taxonomy of Scarabaeoidea)
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