A new species of Cheironitis van Lansberge, 1875 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Onitini) and the first record of Cheironitis moeris (Pallas, 1787) from China

A new species <i>Cheironitis</i> van Lansberge, 1875 (<i>Cheironitis aiweiae</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>), is described from Shiren Gou, Urumqi, in the XinJiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. <i>Cheironitis moeris</i> (Pallas, 1787) is also reported from this region. These two original observations complement the composition of <i>Cheironitis</i> species in China and further expand our knowledge of their distribution.