BJC - Baltic Journal of Coleopterology

Baltic Journal of Coleopterology

XV^th Symposium of Polish Carabidologists
Tatra National Park 04-07.06.2017

Current issue: Volume 21, No. 2 (2021)

A new species of the genus Byctiscus Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera, Rhynchitidae) from Vietnam

Andrei A. Legalov

Legalov A.A. 2021. A new species of the genus Byctiscus Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera, Rhynchitidae) from Vietnam. Baltic J. Coleopterol., 21(2): 169 - 174.

A new species, Byctiscus ivanovi sp. nov. from northwest Vietnam is described and illustrated. This new species is similar to B. fukienensis Voss, 1948 from south-eastern China but differs in the other form of the basal sclerite, sparsely punctate pronotum, and the blue-green body. A key for species of the genus Byctiscus with four elytral spots are given. It is the first record of the genus Byctiscus from Vietnam.

KeyWords : Curculionoidea, Rhynchitinae, Byctiscini, Asia.

Andrei A. Legalov, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze street-11, Novosibirsk 630091 Russia, e-mail: fossilweevils@gmail.com; Altai State University, Lenina-61, Barnaul 656049 Russia; Tomsk State University, Lenina Prospekt, 36, Tomsk 634050 Russia.

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