Amphizoa sinica

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Amphizoa sinica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Amphizoidae
Genus: Amphizoa
Species:
A. sinica
Binomial name
Amphizoa sinica
Yu & Stork 1991

Amphizoa sinica is a species of beetle in the Amphizoidae family. The length of its body is between 11 and 13.5 millimeters. Its metasternal process is depressed, with the lateral margin raised. It lives in the northeastern province of Jilin in China and in North Korea. [1]

It was first described in 1991 by Yu Peiyu and Nigel Stork. [2] [3]

References

  1. Ji, L.; Jäch, M.A. 2003: Amphizoidae: taxonomic notes and new distributional records (Coleoptera). Pp. 49-52 in Jäch, M.A.; Ji, L. (eds.) Water Beetles of China. Volume 3. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft and Wiener Coleopterologenverein, Vienna.
  2. "Amphizoa sinica Peiyu & Stork, 1991". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  3. Yu Peiyu; Nigel E. Stork (April 1991). "New evidence on the phylogeny and biogeography of the Amphizoidae: Discovery of a new species from China (Coleoptera)". Systematic Entomology . 16 (2): 253–256. doi:10.1111/J.1365-3113.1991.TB00687.X. ISSN   0307-6970. Wikidata   Q136807222.