Original Paper

A review of the neptis species group of the genus Lilioceris (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Criocerinae)

  • Yuan Xu ,
  • Yun Xiong ,
  • Hongbin Liang
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 2Gongshan Protection Sub-Bureau, Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve, Gongshan 673500, Yunnan, China 3College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Online published: 2021-10-24

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (31970400), and the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) program (2019QZKK0501).

Abstract

A new species group of the genus Lilioceris Reitter, 1913 is proposed and keyed as neptis group, characterized by adults with mesoventral process widened, tuberculate, and horizontally connected with mesoventrite. It includes six species: Lilioceris balyi Ch?j?, 1962, L. cantonensis Heinze, 1943 stat. rev., L. fouana Pic, 1932, L. neptis (Weise, 1922), L. subpolita (Motschulsky, 1861) and L. vietnamica Medvedev, 1985. Among them, Lilioceris cantonensis Heinze, 1943 is resurrected as a valid species from synonyms of L. neptis (Weise, 1922); L. fouana Pic, 1932 is transferred from the subgenus Chujoita Monrós, 1959 to the subgenus Lilioceris Reitter, 1913; L. vietnamica Medvedev, 1985 is firstly recorded in China; some misidentifications of former literatures for L. neptis are provided. Redescriptions (if necessary), habitus photographs, geographic distributions, host plants and habitats (if known) are provided for these species.

Cite this article

Yuan Xu , Yun Xiong , Hongbin Liang . A review of the neptis species group of the genus Lilioceris (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Criocerinae)[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2021 , 46(4) : 300 -316 . DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021404

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