To the knowledge of Oriental leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Author
Medvedev, L. N.
text
Russian Entomological Journal
2019
2019-09-30
28
3
282
285
http://dx.doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.28.3.07
journal article
10.15298/rusentj.28.3.07
0132-8069
13164517
Abirus balyi
Medvedev
,
sp.n.
Fig. 3
.
MATERIAL.
Holotype
,
♂
: Borneo (
BMNH
).
DESCRIPTION. Greenish-blue, antennae blackish-blue. Body elongate, 1.8 times as long as wide. Head shining, sparsely punctate. Proportions of segments are as 13-4-11-8-9- 10-16, next segments absent, segment 7 moderately widened to apex. Prothorax 1.1 times as wide as long, shining, densely punctate, interspaces flat, mostly smaller than size of punctures. Scutellum shining, with a few microscopic punctures, broadly rounded on apex. Elytra 1.3 times as long as wide, densely punctate, with interspaces convex and mostly transverse. Segment 1 of anterior and mid tarsi feebly widened.
Aedeagus with triangular apex and preapical impression on underside (
Fig. 3
).
Length
5.4 mm
.
DIAGNOSIS. Very alike at
A. apicalis
Baly, 1867
, both species might be divided as follow:
1(2) 2 or 3 apical antennal segments fulvous. Elytra of male 1.5-1.6 times as long as wide. Aedeagus with long acute spine on apex without preapical impression on underside (
Fig. 4
) .......................................
A. apicalis
Baly, 1867
2(1) Antennae entirely black. Elytra of male 1.3 times as long as wide. Aedeagus with triangular apex and preapical impression on underside (
Fig. 3
) ............
A. balyi
sp.n.