Three new species of Bolbochromus Boucomont (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae, Bolboceratinae) from Southeast Asia

Chun-Lin Li; Ping-Shih Yang; Jan Krikken; Chuan-Chan Wang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.290.4696

Three new species of Bolbochromus Boucomont (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae, Bolboceratinae) from Southeast Asia

Zookeys. 2013 Apr 16:(290):39-54. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.290.4696. Print 2013.

Authors

Chun-Lin Li¹, Ping-Shih Yang, Jan Krikken, Chuan-Chan Wang

Affiliation

¹ The Experimental Forest, National Taiwan University, Nantou 557, Taiwan, ROC.

Abstract

Three new species of the Oriental bolboceratine genus Bolbochromus Boucomont 1909, Bolbochromus minutus Li and Krikken, sp. n. (Thailand), Bolbochromus nomurai Li and Krikken, sp. n. (Vietnam), and Bolbochromus malayensis Li and Krikken, sp. n. (Malaysia), are described from continental Southeast Asia with diagnoses, distributions, remarks and illustrations. The genus is discussed with emphasis on continental Southeast Asia. A key to species known from Indochina and Malay Penisula is presented. An annotated checklist of Bolbochromus species is presented.

Keywords: Bolboceratinae; Bolbochromus; Geotrupidae; Southeast Asia; new species.