Three new species and new faunistic data on Ancistria Erichson (Coleoptera: Passandridae) from southern China
Zhao Pan1, Pan-Pan Li2, Kai-Xuan Liu3
1Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application of Hebei Province; School of Life Sciences; Institute of Life Science and Green Development; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; Hebei Province; China. panzhao86@yeah.net.
Zootaxa
|December 8, 2024
Abstract:
Ancistria Erichson, 1845 is poorly known from China, with only five species recorded. Three new species and one newly recorded species for China were discovered from the Nanling Mountain Range and Lingnan area, i.e., A. limbata Pan, sp. nov., A. longior Pan, sp. nov., A. nanlingensis Pan, sp. nov. and A. bicolorata Burckhardt & Ślipiński, 1995, which are described and illustrated in this paper. A key to the known Chinese species of Ancistria is also provided.


