A new species of Brahmina Blanchard(Coleoptera:Scarabaeidae:Melolonthinae)from northeastern China
Brahmina Blanchard,1851 is a minor genus in Melolonthinae and is composed of 76 species assigned into three subgenera.Here a new species of Brahmina is described as new to science from Liaoning:Brahmina(Brahmina)haitangensis Zhang sp.nov.Sexual dimorphism is discovered in Brahmina for the first time:clypeal notch absent in male but present in female;male antennal club longer than the total length of the third to the seventh antennomere,while the female antennal club shorter than those antennomeres;both metaspurs slender in male,but the lateral metaspur expanded in female.
cockchafersexual dimorphismtaxonomyLiaoning
张睿煜、刘万岗、姜碌
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辽宁省经济与应用昆虫重点实验室,沈阳农业大学植物保护学院,辽宁 沈阳 110866
中国科学院地球环境研究所,黄土与第四纪地质国家重点实验室,陕西 西安 710075
鳃金龟 性二型 分类 辽宁
National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaChina Postdoctoral Science Foundation
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