Meligethes (Meligethes) cinereoargenteus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 Examined material. China, SICHUAN, LUDINg COUNTY, MOXI TOWN, MT. GONggA, HAILUOgOU, 2780 m A.S.L., CA. 29.566667° 102°, 5.v.2017, X. CHEN LgT, 3 ♂, 4 ♀ (NWAU, CAR-MZUR, NMPC). Distribution. SW CHINA (SICHUAN); KNOWN THUS fAR ONLY fROm SICHUAN, ON THE bASIS Of TWO SERIOUSLY DAmAgED mALE SpECImENS COLLECTED NEAR LUDINg (AUDISIO et al. 2015) (FIg. 5b). Host-plants. UNKNOWN; HOWEvER, THE HOST IS LIKELY Rosa Sp. OR A RELATED ROSACEAE gENUS. THIS SpECIES OCCURS IN bUSHY/SHRUbbY AREAS AT HIgH ALTITUDES (2500–2800 m). Taxonomic remarks. DUE TO THE pOOR STATE Of pRESERvATION Of THE TYpE mATERIAL fROm LUDINg, THIS SpECIES, ALTHOUgH bEINg ONLY SUpERfICIALLY SImILAR TO Meligethes (M.) nepalensis EASTON, 1968, fROm NEpAL (IN THE Meligethes nepalensis SpECIES gROUp), WAS mISINTERpRETED bY AUDISIO et al. (2015) AS bELONgINg TO THIS CLADE. BASED ON THE fRESH mATERIAL REpORTED AbOvE (FIg. 1C), THIS TAXON IS DEfINITIvELY A mEmbER Of THE Meligethes ... : 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 549-550, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1196235 ...