A taxonomic review on the species of Tetraserica Ahrens, 2004, of China (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini)
Author
Liu, Wan-Gang
Author
Fabrizi, Silvia
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Bai, Ming
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Yang, Xing-Ke
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Ahrens, Dirk
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ZooKeys
2014
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.448.8429
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.448.8429
1313-2970-448-83
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Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Scarabaeidae
Tetraserica daqingshanica
sp. n.
Type material examined.
Holotype: ♂ [China] "Mt. Daqingshan, Longzhou, Guangxi, 24.IV.1963, 600-700m, leg. Shi Yongshan" (IZAS). Paratype: 1 ♂ [China] "Mt. Daqingshan, Longzhou, Guangxi, 13.IV.1963, 360m, leg. Wang Shuyong" (ZFMK).
Description.
Body length: 9.2 mm, length of elytra: 7 mm, width: 5.5 mm.
Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Antennal club 1.1 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Eyes small; ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.53. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.63. Metafemur dull, anterior margin acute, without submarginal serrated line; anterior row of setae-bearing punctures absent; posterior
margin
with a blunt tooth. Metatibia short and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3.1; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.
Aedeagus. Fig. 1
A-C
. Habitus: Fig. 1D.
Figure 1.
A-D
Tetraserica daqingshanica
sp. n. (holotype)
E-H
Tetraserica sculptilis
Ahrens sp. n. (holotype)
I-L
Tetraserica wangtongensis
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 (not to scale). Scale: 0.5 mm.
Female unknown.
Variation.
Body length: 9.2 mm, length of elytra: 7.0-7.3 mm, width: 5.5-5.9 mm.
Diagnosis.
The new species differs from all other so far known
Tetraserica
species by the blunt tooth at the posterior margin of the metafemur.
Etymology.
The new species is named after the type locality, Mt. Daqingshan.