Meloe medogensis Tan, 1988

Pan, Zhao & Ren, Guodong, 2018, Taxonomic revision of the subfamily Meloinae (Coleoptera: Meloidae) from Xizang, China, with description of a new species, Zoological Systematics 43 (1), pp. 66-88 : 79

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.201807
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5459785
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scientific name	Meloe medogensis Tan, 1988
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Meloe medogensis Tan, 1988: 292 . Type locality: Mêdog , Xizang, China. Type depository: IZCAS.

Material examined from Xizang. None.

Distribution. China: Xizang ( Bologna, 2008) (Mêdog ( Tan, 1988; Wang et al., 2003)).

Remarks. This species, described based on a single male, has a typical Meloe (Meloe) pronotum but moniliform antennae. These characters are not belong to any subgenus of Meloe , like M. elegantulus . The subgeneric assignment should be confirmed in future.