This paper treats Chinese species of Elachertus Spinola. Twenty-three valid
species are recognized, and a key to species groups and another to species
are provided. Nine species are newly recorded from China: E. auripes (Gira
ult), E. charondas (Walker), E. fenestratus Nees, E. inunctus Nees, E. isad
as Walker, E. lateralis (Spinola), E. pulcher (Erdos), E. sobrinus (Girault
and Dodd), and E. simithorax (Girault). Fourteen new species are described
and compared with closely related species: E, flavimaculatus, E. longiramu
lus, E. ater, E. petiolifuniculus, E. divergens, E. flavifuniculus, E. scut
ellaris, E. obliquus, E. oligiramus, E. parallelus, E. sulcatus, E. pilifer
, E. ramosus, and E. varicapitulum. Among Chinese species, ten can be place
d in 2 of Boucek's (1988) species groups, while another 13 are classified i
nto 5 newly proposed groups. New hosts and distributional records are provi
ded. http://www.sinica.edu.tw/zool/zoolstud/40.4/317.pdf.