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<mods:title>The genus Japonitata Strand (Insecta, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) in Taiwan: a redefinition of the genus and descriptions of two new species</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Lee, Chi-Feng</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Lee" authorityYear="2022" baseAuthorityName="Lee" baseAuthorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Japonitata" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Japonitata caerulea" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="171" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="caerulea" status="comb. nov.">Japonitata caerulea</taxonomicName>
Kimoto, 1996: 33 (Taiwan).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Type examined.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Holotype</emphasis>
♂ (SEHU) (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Habitus of Shairella caerulea (Kimoto) A holotype, male, dorsal view B ditto, lateral view C labels on the holotypes D nontype, male, dorsal view E ditto, ventral view F ditto, lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1125.93703.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/762429" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">9A-C</figureCitation>
): &quot;Pilu (碧綠), Hualien / Taiwan / 10.VII.1983 / H. Takizawa [p, w] // HOLOTYPE [p, r] //
<taxonomicName authorityName="Strand" authorityYear="1935" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Japonitata" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Japonitata" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="171" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Japonitata</taxonomicName>
/
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/ Kimoto, n. sp. [h] / Det. S. Kimoto, 19[p]95[h, w] // Euliroetis [h] / Det. H. Takizawa [p, w] // 0000000172 / Sys. Ent / Hokkaido Univ. / Japan [SEHU] [p, w]&quot;.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Figure 9.</emphasis>
Habitus of
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(Kimoto)
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holotype, male, dorsal view
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ditto, lateral view
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labels on the holotypes
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nontype, male, dorsal view
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ditto, ventral view
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ditto, lateral view.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Hualien</emphasis>
:
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<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
(NMNS),
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(華祿溪),
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,
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, leg.
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&amp;
<collectorName>K.-W. Huang</collectorName>
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;
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<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
(NMNS),
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(碧綠神木),
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,
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, leg.
<collectorName>W.-T. Yang</collectorName>
&amp;
<collectorName>K.-W. Huang</collectorName>
</materialsCitation>
;
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(NMNS), same but with
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&quot;
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&quot;
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;
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,
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(NMNS), same but with
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&quot;
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;
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<specimenCount type="male">2♂</specimenCount>
(NMNS), same but with
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&quot;
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&quot;
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;
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<collectorName>Kaohsiung</collectorName>
</emphasis>
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:
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<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
(TARI),
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(中之關),
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</quantity>
,
<collectingDate value="2015-06-10">10.VI.2015</collectingDate>
, leg.
<collectorName>T.-H. Lee</collectorName>
</materialsCitation>
;
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:D34CA58658B85404B16127C89FDB02A0:29E98E849913AC62E9BCBF506D7849E1" name="Nantou">Nantou</location>
</emphasis>
</materialsCitation>
:
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<specimenCount type="male">1♂</specimenCount>
(TARI),
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:D34CA58658B85404B16127C89FDB02A0:4389FC00F669D654D165085D3FD4E4D7" name="Tunyuan">Tunyuan</location>
(屯原),
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<elevation metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.9" unit="m" value="1900.0">1900 m</elevation>
</quantity>
,
<collectingDate value="2019-06-21">21.VI.2019</collectingDate>
, leg.
<collectorName>B.-X. Guo. All</collectorName>
</materialsCitation>
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specimens from
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were collected using
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traps
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.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Redescription.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="171">
Length 6.8-6.9 mm, width 3.7-3.9 mm. General color (Fig.
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) black to blackish brown; abdomen yellow; elytra bluish black. Antennomeres II-XI filiform in males (Fig.
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), ratios of lengths of antennomeres I-XI 1.0: 0.3: 0.9: 1.0: 1.1: 1.1: 1.1: 0.9: 0.9: 0.8: 1.0; ratios of length to width from antennomeres I-XI 3.0: 1.4: 2.9: 3.6: 3.9: 4.2: 4.3: 4.2: 4.6: 4.3: 6.1; more slender in females (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="F10" captionText="Figure 10. Diagnostic characters of Shairella caerulea (Kimoto) A antenna, male B antenna, female C aedeagus, dorsal view D ditto, lateral view E abdominal ventrite VIII F gonocoxae G abdominal ventrite IV-V, male H spermatheca I apex of spermatheca, front view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1125.93703.figure10" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/762430" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">10B</figureCitation>
), ratios of lengths of antennomeres I-XI 1.0: 0.4: 0.9: 1.0: 1.0: 1.0: 1.0: 0.9: 0.9: 0.8: 0.9; ratios of length to width from antennomeres I-XI 3.0: 1.6: 3.4: 3.9: 4.3: 4.6: 4.8: 5.5: 6.1: 5.3: 6.1. Pronotum 2.2 times wider than long; disc with scarce fine punctures at sides, reduced medially, with transverse groove near base, medially abbreviated, laterally connected with short longitudinal groove on basal margin; lateral margins slightly rounded, widest behind apices; apical margin slightly concave and basal margin slightly convex. Elytra 1.4
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longer than wide; disc with confused, dense, fine punctures; with one small tubercle behind scutellum, with one deep depression behind tubercle; with one indistinct longitudinal ridge from humeral calli, parallel with lateral margin, abbreviated subapically; with one additional, deep depression at middle, above longitudinal ridge; lateral margins moderately rounded, widest at apical third, apices divergent. Aedeagus (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="F10" captionText="Figure 10. Diagnostic characters of Shairella caerulea (Kimoto) A antenna, male B antenna, female C aedeagus, dorsal view D ditto, lateral view E abdominal ventrite VIII F gonocoxae G abdominal ventrite IV-V, male H spermatheca I apex of spermatheca, front view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1125.93703.figure10" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/762430" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">10C, D</figureCitation>
) wide, 4.4
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longer than wide; lateral margins straight, widest at apex, gradually narrowed towards base; apex with deep notch; moderately curved in lateral view; tectum membranous; one endophallic sclerite longitudinal and slender, 0.7
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as long as aedeagus, base shallowly bifurcate, lateral margins with clustered short setae at apical third; with short membranous area near apex. Apical margin of abdominal ventrite V in males with distinct median lobe (Fig.
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), narrow, apical margin slightly recurved, with median internal ridge from apex to base, with narrow furrow between gonocoxae; basal margin expanding posteriorly. Gonocoxae (Fig.
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) longitudinal and connected basally; each gonocoxa narrowed subapically, apex truncate, with eight long apical setae; base weakly sclerotized but strongly sclerotized medially. Ventrite VIII (Fig.
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) in females with apex weakly sclerotized, small, depressed medially; with dense short apical setae; spiculum extremely elongate. Spermathecal receptaculum (Fig.
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) slender, as wide as pump, not separated from pump; pump long and curved, apex slightly swollen, dorso-ventrally bifurcate; sclerotized spermathecal duct short, not separated from receptaculum.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Figure 10.</emphasis>
Diagnostic characters of
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(Kimoto)
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antenna, male
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antenna, female
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aedeagus, dorsal view
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ditto, lateral view
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abdominal ventrite VIII
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gonocoxae
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abdominal ventrite IV-V, male
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">H</emphasis>
spermatheca
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apex of spermatheca, front view.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="171">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Shairella caerulea</emphasis>
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(Kimoto, 1996), comb. nov. and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">S. quadricostata</emphasis>
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(Kimoto, 1996), comb. nov. are characterized by having normal elytra and functional hindwings (shortened elytra and reduced hindwings in other species;
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) although some populations of
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have variably reduced hindwings.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Shairella caerulea</emphasis>
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is distinguished easily from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">S. quadricostata</emphasis>
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by its bluish black elytra without longitudinal ridges other than the lateral ridge (Fig.
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) (black elytra with three pairs of weak longitudinal ridges in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">S. quadricostata</emphasis>
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; Fig.
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); median internal ridge of abdominal ventrite in males expending from apex into base (Fig.
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) (median internal ridge of abdominal ventrite V in males expanding from apex, abbreviated before base in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">S. quadricostata</emphasis>
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; Fig.
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); bifurcate apex of aedeagus (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="F10" captionText="Figure 10. Diagnostic characters of Shairella caerulea (Kimoto) A antenna, male B antenna, female C aedeagus, dorsal view D ditto, lateral view E abdominal ventrite VIII F gonocoxae G abdominal ventrite IV-V, male H spermatheca I apex of spermatheca, front view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1125.93703.figure10" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/762430" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">10C</figureCitation>
) (apically narrowed apex of aedeagus in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">S. quadricostata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; Fig.
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); apex of spermatheca swollen, bifurcate in frontal view (Fig.
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) (apex of spermatheca rounded with small process in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">S. quadricostata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; Fig.
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).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Host plant and biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Unknown.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="171" type="remarks">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="171">
All specimens deposited at the National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung were collected using Malaise traps. Many flightless, nocturnal galerucines have been collected in Malaise traps, including
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Taiwanoshaira chujoi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Kimoto, 1982) (
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),
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Paraplotes taiwana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Chûjô">Chujo</normalizedToken>
, 1963 (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3904.2.3" author="Lee, C-F" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="171" pagination="223 - 248" refId="B9" refString="Lee, C-F, 2015. The genus Paraplotes Laboissiere, 1933 in Taiwan, a speciose group with brachelytrous emales (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Zootaxa 3904: 223 - 248, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3904.2.3" title="The genus Paraplotes Laboissiere, 1933 in Taiwan, a speciose group with brachelytrous emales (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)." url="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3904.2.3" volume="3904" year="2015">Lee 2015</bibRefCitation>
), and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Lochmaea lesagei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Kimoto, 1996 (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.856.30838" author="Lee, C-F" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="0" pageNumber="171" pagination="75 - 100" refId="B10" refString="Lee, C-F, 2019. The genus Lochmaea Weise, 1883 in Taiwan: Results of taxonomic expeditions by citizen scientists (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae). ZooKeys 856: 75 - 100, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.856.30838" title="The genus Lochmaea Weise, 1883 in Taiwan: Results of taxonomic expeditions by citizen scientists (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae)." url="https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.856.30838" volume="856" year="2019">Lee 2019</bibRefCitation>
). Moreover, two specimens were collected during the night by Ta-Hsiang Lee (李大翔) and Bo-Xin Guo (郭泊鑫), respectively; they are members of TCRT. These events suggest that adults of
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are nocturnal.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="171">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="171">This species is probably widespread in Taiwan although few specimens are available for study.</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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