Meligethes (Odonthogethes) ferruginoides Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelinek 2015
- Dataset
- New and poorly known Meligethes Stephens from China, with bionomical data on some species (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Nitidulidae
- genus
- Meligethes
- species
- Meligethes ferruginoides
distribution
Distribution. CENTRAL AND SW CHINA (HUbEI, SICHUAN) (AUDISIO et al. 2015) (FIg. 6 b). Host-plants. CONCLUSIvE SpECIfIC HOST DATA REmAINS SOmEWHAT pRObLEmATIC, bUT SOmE ADULT SpECImENS HAvE bEEN COLLECTED (SEE AbOvE: SWALLOW-GULLY, MOXI TOWN, SICHUAN, JUNE 2017) ON fLOWERS Of THE SHRUb Pyracantha fortuneana (MAXImOWICZ) H. L. LI (ROSACEAE), WHICH WAS RECENTLY RECOgNIZED AS THE LIKELY LARvAL HOST-pLANT Of Meligethes (Odonthogethes) pseudochinensis AUDISIO, SAbATELLI & JELÍNEK, 2015 (FIg. 6 IN LIU et al. 2017). ADDITIONAL COLLECTINg EvENTS ARE NEEDED THAT fOCUS ON ObTAININg LARvAL mATERIAL.
materials_examined
Examined material. China, SICHUAN, LUDINg COUNTY, MOXI TOWN, MT. GONggA, HAILUOgOU, 2950 – 2970 m A. S. L., 29.575 ° 101.996667 °, 22. vI. 2017, LIU & AUDISIO LgT, bY SWEEpINg ON SHRUbS AT fOREST EDgES, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (NWAU, CAR-MZUR, NMPC); SICHUAN, LUDINg COUNTY, MOXI TOWN, MT. GONggA, SWALLOW-GULLY, 2450 – 2570 m A. S. L., 29.689167 ° 102.066944 °, 23. vI. 2017, LIU & AUDISIO LgT, ON Pyracantha fortuneana (MAXImOWICZ) H. L. LI (ROSACEAE), 3 ♂, 5 ♀ (NWAU, CAR-MZUR, NMPC, ARCC).