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Abstract
This paper studies the taxonomy of the genus Aetheomorpha Lacordaire, Citation1848 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini) occurring in China. Five new species are described: Aetheomorpha bidentata sp. nov. from Sichuan, Aetheomorpha bilobata sp. nov., Aetheomorpha obtusapicata sp. nov., Aetheomorpha punctistriata sp. nov. and Aetheomorpha wangi sp. nov. from Yunnan. Aetheomorpha furcata Medvedev and Kantner, Citation2002 is reported from China for the first time. The Chinese fauna of the genus is therefore increased to 16 species. A key to species is provided in the text in addition to colour plates and line drawings of habitus, maxilla, labium, male genitalia and female spermatheca and rectal sclerites, which are very helpful for species identification.
Acknowledgements
We thank Dr Eva Sprecher-Uebersax, Dr Michel Brancucci and Ms Isabelle Zürcher-Pfander (Naturhistorische Museum, Basel), and Prof. Guodong Ren (Hebei University Museum), for sending types or other specimens during this study. We would also like to express our thanks to Dr Jan Bezděk (Mendel University), Prof. Andrzej Warchałowski (University of Wrocław), and Dr Renato Regalin (The University of Milan) for sending literature required in our study. Dr Chi-Feng Lee (Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute) very kindly provided colour photographs for the species that occurred in Taiwan. We are also grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments to improve the manuscript. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC-J0930004), CAS Innovation Program (KSCX2-EW-Z-5), and a grant from the Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution of CAS (No. O529YX5105).