Flanged Bombardier beetles from Shanghai, China, with description of a new species in the genus Eustra Schmidt-Goebel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paussinae)

Xiao-Bin Song; Liang Tang; Zhong Peng

doi:10.3897/zookeys.740.20458

Flanged Bombardier beetles from Shanghai, China, with description of a new species in the genus Eustra Schmidt-Goebel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paussinae)

Zookeys. 2018 Feb 27:(740):45-57. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.740.20458. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Xiao-Bin Song¹, Liang Tang¹, Zhong Peng¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China.

Abstract

Four paussine species belonging to three different genera are discovered in Shanghai. A new species, Eustra shanghaiensis Song, sp. n., is described, illustrated, and distinguished from the treated congeners. New distributional data or biological notes on Eustra chinensis Bänninger, 1949, Itamus castaneus Schmidt-Goebel, 1846, and Platyrhopalus davidis Fairmaire, 1886 are provided.

Keywords: China; Ectomomyrmes; Eustra; Itamus; Paussinae; Pheidole; Platyrhopalus; Shanghai; myrmecophilous; new species.