Taxonomy of the genus Aetheomorpha Lacordaire (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini) from China, with description of five new species
Author
Wang, Feng-Yan
Author
Zhou, Hong-Zhang
text
Journal of Natural History
2012
2012-06-30
46
23 - 24
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.673642
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10.1080/00222933.2012.673642
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Aetheomorpha bacboensis
Medvedev, 1992
(
Figures 7A–I
,
12G
)
Medvedev, 1992b: 72
(type locality:
North Vietnam
,
prov. Thanh–Hoa
,
Mountains southwest Baithuong
;
holotype
deposited:
LM
);
Medvedev, 2010: 197
(
Yunnan
,
Xishuangbanna
).
Figure 6.
Aetheomorpha furcata
Medvedev and Kantner
: (A) habitus; (B) maxilla; (C) labium; (D) male genitalia in dorsal view; (E) male genitalia in lateral view; (F) male genitalia in ventral view; (G) spermatheca; (H) rectal sclerites in ventral view; (I) rectal sclerites in dorsal view. Scales 0.5 mm.
Material examined
CHINA
:
Guangxi
:
two males
,
one female
,
Longzhou
,
2 May 1963
, leg.
Shuyong Wang
;
one male
,
Longzhou
,
2 May 1963
, leg.
Yongshan Shi
;
one female
,
Longzhou
,
2 May 1963
, leg.
Chunguang Wang
;
Yunnan
:
two females
,
Hekou
,
Xiaonanxi
,
9 June 1956
, leg.
Keren Huang
;
two females
,
Jinping
,
Mengla
,
2 May 1956
, leg.
Keren Huang
;
one male
,
one female
,
Xishuangbanna
,
Jinghong
,
13 July 1958
, leg.
Xuwu Meng
;
one female
,
Xishuangbanna
,
Mengla
,
23 May 1959
, leg.
Fuji Pu
;
one female
,
Xishuangbanna
,
Xiaomengyang
,
18 June 1957
, leg.
Shuyong Wang
;
one male
,
Xishuangbanna
,
Yiwu
,
13 May 1959
, leg.
Zhenfu Li
(
IZ-CAS
)
;
VIETNAM
:
nine males
,
five females
,
Tonkin
,
Hoa Binh
, leg.
A de Cooman
(
IZ-CAS
)
.
Figure 7.
Aetheomorpha bacboensis
Medvedev
: (A) habitus; (B) maxilla; (C) labium; (D) male genitalia in dorsal view; (E) male genitalia in lateral view; (F) male genitalia in ventral view; (G) spermatheca; (H) rectal sclerites in ventral view; (I) rectal sclerites in dorsal view. Scales 0.5 mm.
Distribution
China
(
Guangxi
,
Yunnan
), North
Vietnam
(
Thanh Hoa
,
Hoa Binh
)
.
Remarks
Aetheomorpha bacboensis
Medvedev, 1992
is close to
A. cochinchinensis
Lefèvre, 1889
, which is distributed in South
Vietnam
and
Myanmar
; but the former can be well distinguished by the fan-shaped aedeagal apex, obviously wider than long. Moreover, the spermathecal duct is very long, closely coiled into a ball. Ventral rectal sclerites are obviously kneeing (
Figure 7H
).