Description of a new species of Chrysina Kirby, 1828 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from optima group, based on morphological characters and mtDNA COX I molecular marker

A new species of the genus Chrysina Kirby, 1828 is decribed from Panama. Chrysina valentini sp.n. is related to Chrysina tricolor (Ohaus, 1922) and Chrysina optima (H. W. Bates, 1888) in morphology and mtDNA COX I molecular marker. Three related species differ in elytra colour, elytral striae, and n...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Acta Biologica Sibirica
Main Authors: A.S. Zubov, N.V. Ivshin, A. Yu. Titarenko, D.A. Romanov
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Altai State University 2019
Subjects:
scarabaeidae
rutelini
chrysina
plusiotis
new species
panama
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Bates
Sibirica
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.14258/abs.v5.i4.7176
https://doaj.org/article/a1ec512d8b9b47b584f7bae794b8918f
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Summary:A new species of the genus Chrysina Kirby, 1828 is decribed from Panama. Chrysina valentini sp.n. is related to Chrysina tricolor (Ohaus, 1922) and Chrysina optima (H. W. Bates, 1888) in morphology and mtDNA COX I molecular marker. Three related species differ in elytra colour, elytral striae, and number of tubercles on foreleg femur. The morphological divergence of the compared species is supported by distances in mtDNA COI molecular marker.

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