Jacobsonids are a small group of minute elongate yellowish brown
Beetles, of uncertain taxonomic placement; different entomologists feeling that
the group are more closely related to different groups of Beetles. The family
is split into three genera with a total of 21 described species, the largest
genera, Sarothrias, currently
containing thirteen species, twelve of which are found in equatorial regions
from the Seychelles and South India to the west to Australia and Fiji in the
east, with the one non-equatorial species being found in northeast India.
In a paper published in the journal ZooKeys on 16 April 2015, Wen-Xuan
Bi of the Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution at the
Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chang-Chin Chen of the
NPS office of the Tianjin New Wei San Industrial Company, Limited and Mei-Ying
Lin, also of the Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution at the
Institute of Zoology describe a new species of Sarothrias, from Medog County in Tibet.
The new species is named Sarothrias sinicus,
meaning ‘Chinese’, as it is the first member of the genus or family known from
China. The species is described from a single male specimen, 2.2 mm in length
and dark brown in colour, collected from subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest
at an altitude of 1850 m.
Sarothriassinicus, male specimen in (1) dorsal, (2) ventral and (3) lateral views.
Scale bar is 0.5 mm. Bi et al.
(2015).
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