A monograph on the genus Tetraserica from the Indochinese region (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini)
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Fabrizi, Silvia
Author
Dalstein, Vivian
Author
Ahrens, Dirk
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2019
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.837.32057
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.837.32057
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Tetraserica pseudoliangheensis
sp. n.
Figures 3, 50
Type material examined.
Holotype: ♂ "Laos centr. Khammouan prov. NAKAI env. 4-8.5.1998, Route No 8, alt 560
+/-
20 m, N17°42.8, E 105°08.9 (GPS) E. Jendek & O.
Sausa
leg./ Coll. P.
Pacholatko
/ 167
Sericini
Asia spec." (CPPB).
Description.
Length of body: 10.1 mm; length of elytra: 7.5 mm; maximum width: 6.3 mm. Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.57. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.58. Metatibia short and wide, ratio width/length: 1/2.89; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.
Aedeagus: Fig. 3
A-C
. Habitus: Fig. 3D.
Figure 3.
A-D
Tetraserica pseudoliangheensis
sp. n. (holotype)
E-H
T. liangheensis
Liu et al., 2014 (holotype)
I-L
T.
T. doisuthepensis
sp. n. (holotype) A, E, I aedeagus, left side lateral view C, G, K aedeagus, right side lateral view B, F, J parameres, dorsal view D, H, L habitus. Scale bars: 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.
Female unknown.
Diagnosis.
Tetraserica pseudoliangheensis
sp. n. differs from
T. falciformis
by the dorsal lobe of right paramere having a sharp hook at its apex (dorsal view). The species is also rather similar to
T. liangheensis
Liu et al., 2014; however, in the new species the posterior margin of metafemur does not possess a tooth and the dorsal lobe of the right paramere is much wider at the base.
Etymology.
The species name (adjective in the nominative singular) is derived from the combined Latin words pseudo- (nearly) and the species name
liangheensis
, with reference to the similarity to
T. liangheensis
Liu et al., 2014.