Meligethes (Meligethes) elytralis Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 Examined material. China, SICHUAN, XIANgCHENg COUNTY, 3800–3900 m A.S.L., 29.003889° 99.931944°, 19.vI.2017, LIU & AUDISIO LgT, ON Rosa sericea LINDLEY (ROSACEAE), 3 ♂, 4 ♀, AND TWO THIRD-INSTAR LARvAE (NWAU, CAR-MZUR, NMPC, ARCC); 3100–3400 m A.S.L., 28.994444° 99.918056°, 19.vI.2017, LIU & AUDISIO LgT, ON R. sericea, 2 ♂, 2 ♀ (NWAU, CAR-MZUR, NMPC, ARCC); 2800–2900 m A.S.L., 28.946389° 99.806667°, 19.vI.2017, LIU & AUDISIO LgT, ON R. sericea, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (NWAU, CAR-MZUR). Distribution. SW CHINA (SICHUAN); pREvIOUSLY ONLY KNOWN fROm THE fEmALE HOLOTYpE COLLECTED IN SICHUAN (AUDISIO et al. 2015) (FIg. 5A). Host-plants. ALL SpECImENS HAvE bEEN COLLECTED, WITH ASSOCIATED LARvAE, ON fLOWERINg SHRUbS Of Rosa sericea, WHICH IS CHARACTERIZED bY WHITE fLOWERS TYpICALLY WITH fOUR pETALS (UNUSUAL fOR A mEmbER Of THE ROSE fAmILY), AND LONg, fLAT AND TYpICALLY REDDISH TO bROWN LARgE AND WIDE THORNS (FIg. 3b). R. sericea IS A COmmON mIDDLE ... : Published as part of Liu, Meike, Huang, Min, Cline, Andrew Richard & Audisio, Paolo, 2018, New and poorly known Meligethes Stephens from China, with bionomical data on some species (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae), pp. 546-566 in Zootaxa 4392 (3) on pages 547-548, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1196235 ...