A new species of Amamiclytus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Guizhou, China, with an updated key to the eastern Asian species of the genus

ABSTRACT

A new cerambycid species, Amamiclytus castaneus sp. nov. collected from chestnut flowers in Xingyi, Guizhou Province of China is described. It is the fourth species of the genus recorded for mainland China and the second species recorded for Guizhou Province. An updated key to species of the genus of East Asia is provided.

KEYWORDS:

• Longhorn beetle
• Cerambycinae
• Clytini
• taxonomy
• Castanea mollissima

Acknowledgments

This article is supported by the research grant from Guizhou Provincial Basic Research Program (Natural Science) (grant No. 黔科合基础-ZK[2023]一般277). We thank Jianghua Huang, Qiming Ban and Hegen Zeng for their help on survey and collecting. We would like to express our gratitude to Dr Przybyłowicz and three anonymous reviewers for their help to improve this manuscript.

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Funding

The work was supported by the Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Department [黔科合基础-ZK[2023]一般277].