First Record of Osphya (Melandryidae: Osphyinae) from Chinese Mainland Based on Morphological Evidence and Mitochondrial Genome-Based Phylogeny of Tenebrionoidea

Osphya Illiger (Melandryidae: Osphyinae) as a species-poor insect group, exhibits widespread distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, however, research of genus is poorly documented especially East Asia. Herein, an interesting species discovered Shennongjia National Natural Reserve (Hubei, China). The examination morphological characters and comparisons with others show it to be new member Osphya, which described under name O. sinensis sp. n. characteristic photos key from Asia are provided. Meanwhile, mitochondrial genome sequenced annotated. Based on this obtained mitogenome publicly available data, we reconstructed phylogeny Tenebrionoidea by different cladistics methods investigate relationships between others. results consistently recover sister bipunctata (Fabricius) high supporting values, further confirm placement Osphya. This first time reporting only representative melandryid Osphyinae mainland China, enriches diversity beetles Chinese fauna at both generic subfamilial levels.