Liu Zhenhua, Li Zhiqiang
Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization; Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization; Institute of Zoology; Guangdong Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou 510260; China.
Zootaxa. 2024 Oct 23;5528(1):17-37. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5528.1.5.
Coleoptera comprise 198 families and over 440,000 species to date, of which 143 families and over 35,000 species are known in China. Of these, only 64 families have been recorded in Guangdong Province, fewer than in Hong Kong. To investigate the insect diversity of Guangdong, numerous specimens were collected from the Nanling Mountains and the Greater Bay Area using various methods, and over 200,000 specimens of Coleoptera were assigned to families. Thus, a preliminary study of beetles at the family-level in Guangdong is carried out based on the examined specimens and historical records. An updated checklist of beetle families in Guangdong increases the number of families from 64 to 111, in which Eupsilobiidae is recorded for the first time in China and a new species, Eidoreus haizhuensis sp. nov. is described here, demonstrating the importance of persistent collecting with different methods for the study of insect diversity. Habitus images of most of the beetle families occurring in Guangdong are provided. And the updated records are compared in detail with the published records, showing that more families may potentially be found in Guangdong, requiring further field work and taxonomists working on niche groups.
鞘翅目目前包括198个科和超过44万种，其中在中国已知143个科和超过35000种。其中，广东省仅记录了64个科，比香港的记录还少。为了调查广东的昆虫多样性，采用各种方法从南岭和大湾区采集了大量标本，超过20万个鞘翅目标本被归类到科。因此，基于所检查的标本和历史记录，对广东甲虫科级水平进行了初步研究。广东甲虫科的最新名录将科的数量从64个增加到111个，其中真隐翅虫科在中国首次被记录，并且描述了一个新物种，海珠艾隐翅虫，新种，这表明采用不同方法持续采集对于昆虫多样性研究的重要性。提供了广东出现的大多数甲虫科的形态照片。并将最新记录与已发表的记录进行了详细比较，表明广东可能还有更多的科有待发现，这需要进一步的野外工作以及专注于特定类群的分类学家的努力。
