Miridiba (Coca-Abia, 2008)

Gao, Chuan-Bu, Bai, Ming, Fang, Hong & Yu, Zhi-Guo, 2018, Four new species of the genus Miridiba Reitter (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from China, Zootaxa 4527 (1), pp. 1-20 : 12

Catalogue of Miridiba species known from China

(including Chinese Mainland and Hainan and Taiwan Islands)

Altogether 18 Miridiba species distributed in China are confirmed. Some specimens of Miridiba deposited in IZCAS were incorrectly identified as Holotrichia (Pledina) ciliatipennis ( Moser, 1913) , H. (P.) hybrida ( Moser, 1912) , H. (P.) imitatrix (Brenske, 1899) or H. (P.) pilosella (Moser, 1908) by Chang (1964). Unfortunately, we have not found any Chinese specimens of H. ciliatipennis , H. hybrida or H. imitatrix until now. Although Holotrichia (Pledina) Hope, 1845 was not included into Miridiba by Coca-Abia (2008), we herein follow Li et al. (2015) and treat Holotrichia sinensis Hope, 1842 as a member of Miridiba .