description in chinese papers

[Thomas Lammers]

At 09:08 AM 2/10/01 +1100, Vr. Richard Bejsak-Colloredo-Mansfeld wrote:
>I have similar problem to one described in bellow message..
>Chinese professors Li Jingke and Chen Peng published soft booklet in
>Chinese language only "Studies on fauna and ecogeography of soil Animal"
>in 1993.  There are new descriptions of many beetles including
>Tenebrionidae, (which I am interested) in Chinese only. For your interest
>there are some examples: Xantholinus parajaponocus, Dicentrius chineus,
>Ontholestes hairaerensis, Monolepta paradichroa, Quasimus anhuiensis, new
>ssp of Captolabrus lafossei, etc.
>They also in this book mentioned beetles what is unknown to me as Eugrapha
>hulunbeierensis Li,1992....

I don't know the situation under the Zoological Code, but under the
Botanical Code, our insistence on a Latin diagnosis for new taxa would
obviate this problem.


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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