Meligethes

Meligethes View in CoL View at ENA ( s.str.) hammondi Kirejtshuk, 1980

Biological notes. A small series of specimens belonging to this rather common species, widespread in central China, was recently collected by the authors ML, MH and PA ( July 2015) in several localities of northern Sichuan [Jiuzhaigou Valley; Nanping area, pond-lake of Gan (Ganhaizi)] and southern Shaanxi [Taibai Mts]. All specimens were collected on flowering Rosa sp. with large whitish-pink flowers, still pending specific identification ( Rosaceae ). As hypothesized by Audisio et al. (2015), Rosa spp. are likely the larval host-plants of this species.