Three new species and five new records within the genus Lilioceris (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Criocerinae) from China

Yuan Xu; Hongbin Liang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1189.111064

Three new species and five new records within the genus Lilioceris (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Criocerinae) from China

Zookeys. 2024 Jan 12:1189:55-81. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1189.111064. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Yuan Xu^{1

2}, Hongbin Liang¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.
² College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.

Abstract

The Chinese species of Lilioceris are revised, and three new species are described from Tibet, China: Lilioceriszhentangensis Xu & Liang, sp. nov., Liliocerismedogensis Xu & Liang, sp. nov. and Lilioceriszayuensis Xu & Liang, sp. nov. Five species of Lilioceris are reported for China as new records: L.dromedarius (Baly, 1861), L.pulchella (Baly, 1859), L.semicostata (Jacoby, 1908), L.unicolor (Hope, 1831) and L.nepalensis Takizawa, 1989. Liliocerisseminigra (Jacoby, 1889) is proposed as a junior synonym of L.unicolor Hope, 1831. Redescriptions, habitus photographs, geographic distributions, host plants (if available) and habitats are provided for these species.

Keywords: Habitat; Shining leaf beetle; Tibet; host plant; map; new synonym; taxonomy.

Yuan Xu, Hongbin Liang.