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A New Subspecies of the Ground-Beetle Calosoma (Callisthenes) elegans (Kirsch, 1859) from China (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

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A new subspecies, Calosoma (Callisthenes) elegans gongliuense subsp. n., is described from Gongliu County, Wutu Vill. (Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region of China). This taxon is distinct from the neighboring C. elegans rostislavi Semenov, 1906 and C. elegans kashense Kabak, 2022, first of all, in having bright coppery or greenish metallic luster of dorsum. The photographs of habitus and median lobe of aedeagus of the new taxon are given.

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The study of I.I. Kabak was partly supported by the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (BR18574058). The work of H.-B. Liang was supported by Grant No. 31970400 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

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  1. All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushkin, 196608, St. Petersburg, Russia

    I. I. Kabak

  2. Institute of Zoology, Committee of Science, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 050060, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    I. I. Kabak

  3. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China

    H.-B. Liang

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Kabak, I.I., Liang, HB. A New Subspecies of the Ground-Beetle Calosoma (Callisthenes) elegans (Kirsch, 1859) from China (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Entmol. Rev. 103, 320–322 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873823030089

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