Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 10010, People's Republic of China. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, CZ-128 43 Praha 2, Czech Republic..
Zootaxa. 2021 Jan 27;4920(1):zootaxa.4920.1.8. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.1.8.
The genus Airapus Stebnicka Howden, 1996 currently comprises 26 extant species distributed in the Australian and Oriental zoogeographical regions (Stebnicka Howden 1996; Stebnicka 1998, 2009; Rakovič et al. 2019; Král et al. 2019; Minkina 2020) and one fossil species from the Eocene Baltic amber (Tamutis et al. 2017). Of the continental Southeast Asia, only three species have been known so far: Airapus cechovskyi Král, Mencl Rakovič, 2019 (mainland Malaysia: Kelantan), A. tyri Král, Mencl Rakovič, 2019 (Central Thailand: Phetchaburi Province) and A. sicardi ( Paulian, 1945) (Laos: "Cochinchine: Long Xuyen" and South Vietnam: "Annam: Tanh Hoa") (Paulian 1945; Balthasar 1964; Král et al. 2019). Examination of the material housed in the collections of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, revealed Airapus material belonging to an undescribed species. Its formal description is presented in this paper. This new species is another, fourth species occurring in mainland Southeast Asia. It is also the first country record from China. The geographical distribution of the genus is now known to the north as far as Fujian Province.
目前，1996 年由 Stebnicka Howden 建立的 Airapus 属包含 26 个现存物种，分布在澳大利亚和东洋动物地理区（Stebnicka Howden 1996；Stebnicka 1998，2009；Rakovič 等人，2019；Král 等人，2019；Minkina 2020）以及一个来自始新世波罗的海琥珀的化石物种（Tamutis 等人，2017）。在东南亚大陆，目前只知道三个物种：Airapus cechovskyi Král，Mencl Rakovič，2019（马来西亚大陆：吉兰丹），A. tyri Král，Mencl Rakovič，2019（泰国中部：碧差汶府）和 A. sicardi（Paulian，1945）（老挝：“交趾支那：永隆”和南越：“安南：清化”）（Paulian，1945；Balthasar，1964；Král 等人，2019）。对中国科学院动物研究所收藏的材料进行检查，发现了属于未描述物种的 Airapus 材料。本文对其进行了正式描述。这个新物种是东南亚大陆的第四个物种，也是在中国的第一个记录。该属的地理分布现在已知北至福建省。
