title: Description of three new species ofCrenitisBedel from China, with additional faunistic records for the genus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Chaetarthriinae).
abstract: Three new species of the genus Crenitis Bedel, 1881 are described from China: C. aduncata sp. nov. (Yunnan), C. lianggeqiui sp. nov. (Yunnan and Sichuan) and C. obovata sp. nov. (Guangxi and Guizhou). All three species are assigned to the subgenus Crenitis. New locality records in China are provided for C. apicalis (Reitter, 1896) (from Inner Mongolia) and C. convexa Ji & Komarek, 2003 (from Ningxia, Chongqing). A key to the Chinese species of the subgenus Crenitis is provided.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Entomology, Life Science School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, Guangdong, China.. lssjfl@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Fenglong
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Yudan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Yûsuke N
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Minoshima
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male
keywords: Coleoptera, Hydrophiloidea, aquatic beetle, water scavenger beetle, Anacaenini, Crenitis, Palearctic, Oriental, China