Abstract
A new malachiid beetle species Kuatunia andreasi Tshernyshev, sp. n. is described from Nepal (Karnali Province). Figures of the external appearance, elytral apices, and genitalia of the male are provided for the new species. A key to all species of the genus Kuatunia Evers, 1949 is given.
Highlights
The genus Kuatunia Evers, 1949 has been reviewed with a discussion of differential characters and position of the genus in the tribe Ebaeini (Tshernyshev, 2012), three new species were described from China and north-eastern Russia (Tshernyshev (2012) and Nepal (Tshernyshev (2015), and two Ebaeini species were transferred from Ebaeus Erichson to Kuatunia (Asano, 2013), namely K. chibaensis (Nakane, 1989) and K. horaianus (Nakane, 1991)
As was shown (Tshernyshev (2015), three species distributed in Japan require further investigation, since K. horaianus (Nakane) should have been considered as a synonym of K. oblongula oblongula (Kiesenwetter, 1874), but K. oblongula chujoi Wittmer, 1954 is valid taxon
A new Kuatunia species was found amongst soft-winged flower beetle material collected in Nepal by scientists from the Naturkundemuseum in Erfurt, Germany
Summary
The genus Kuatunia Evers, 1949 has been reviewed with a discussion of differential characters and position of the genus in the tribe Ebaeini (Tshernyshev, 2012), three new species were described from China and north-eastern Russia (Tshernyshev (2012) and Nepal (Tshernyshev (2015), and two Ebaeini species were transferred from Ebaeus Erichson to Kuatunia (Asano, 2013), namely K. chibaensis (Nakane, 1989) and K. horaianus (Nakane, 1991) Both these species belong to oblongula species-group, the members of which look similar but differ in the shape of the apical impression and appendage in elytra of males and the colouration of dark and light parts of body. A description of a new species is given below, and an improved key to all species of Kuatunia is provided
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