Meligethes (Meligethes) aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 Examined material. China, SHAANXI, MT. HUA, 1250 m A.S.L., 34.495833° 110.079722°, 12.vI.2017, P. AUDISIO & M. LIU LgT, 2 ♂, 5 ♀ (NWAU, CAR-MZUR). Distribution. CENTRAL CHINA (SHAANXI, SHANXI). THIS SpECIES WAS pREvIOUSLY KNOWN fROm A SmALL SERIES Of SpECImENS COLLECTED IN SHAANXI AND SHANXI, mOSTLY IN THE AREA Of THE MT. HUA (AUDISIO et al. 2015) (FIg. 5b). Host-plants. THE AbOvE SEvEN SpECImENS fROm MT. HUA, SHAANXI, WERE COLLECTED ON fLOWERINg SHRUbS Of Rosa Sp. (SpECIfIC IDENTIfICATION pENDINg), LIKELY Rosa giraldii CRépIN, 1897 (ROSACEAE). THIS CHARACTERISTIC Rosa SpECIES pOSSESSES SmALL pINK fLOWERS (FIg. 3f), AND OCCURS ON THE WHITISH gRANITIC CLIffS AS TYpICAL Of MT. HUA. LARvAL HOSTpLANTS RELATIONSHIpS CANNOT bE ESTAbLISHED WITH CERTAINTY, bUT IT IS LIKELY THAT THIS SpECIES, DISTRIbUTED fROm SICHUAN TO SHANXI, REpRESENTS THE TRUE HOST Of M. aurifer. THE SpECImENS ARE pRESENT ON THIS LIKELY HOST-pLANT IN NARROW vALLEYS AND ... : 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 page 549, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1196235 ...