Contributions to some Corydiinae genera (Blattodea: Corydioidea: Corydiidae) from China

ABSTRACT

New findings on Chinese Corydiinae are presented and new taxa are described and illustrated: Ctenoblatta impubis gen. and sp. nov., Minicorydia maoxiana gen. and sp. nov. and Ergaula nepalensis (Saussure) is newly recorded from China. The occurrence of two species of Polyphaga Brullé, P. plancyi Bolívar and P. obscura Chopard, in China are confirmed. A key to Chinese Corydiinae genera is provided as well as checklists for extant Polyphaga and Ergaula.

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KEYWORDS:

• Ctenoblatta
• Minicorydia
• Polyphaga
• Ergaula
• new genus

Acknowledgements

We wish to express our sincere thanks to the following colleagues for helping with the specimens used in this paper: Prof. Guo-Dong Ren (MHBU), Dr Yi-Bin Ba (MHBU), Prof. Shu-Qiang Li (IZCAS), Dr Hong Liu (IZCAS), Dr Zhu Li (BJMNH), Mr Qiao-Zhi Yang (Beijing), Dr Wei-Wei Zhang (Chongqing), Dr Zhong Peng (Shanghai), Dr Shun-Hua Gui (SWU), Dr Xin-Ran Li (SWU) and Dr Jian-Yue Qiu (SWU). We also thank Mr Gunvi Lindberg (NRM) and Dr George Beccaloni (NHMUK) for photographing or providing photographs of specimens studied in this paper; and Mr Qiao-Zhi Yang, Dr Ye Liu (Beijing) and Dr Wei-Wei Zhang for the habitat photos; and Dr Xin-Ran Li and Ms Chen-Chen Wang (Shangdong) for drawing and providing the line drawings of the venation of Polyphaga plancyi and Ergaula nepalensis. Many thanks to Prof. John Richard Schrock (Department of Biological Sciences, Emporia State University) for revising the English, and to the Editor and reviewers for their critical remarks on this study.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Nos. 31472026, 31672329].