DNA barcode and phylogeography of six new high altitude wingless Niphadomimus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) from Southwest China
Author
Grebennikov, Vasily V.
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-07-17
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3838.2.1
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Niphadomimus maia
sp. n.
Figs. 5
,
11E
.
Diagnostic description.
Holotype
, male (
Figs. 5
,
11E
). Genbank accession:
KJ427733
. Length: 5.00 mm. Color black; prosternal depression delimited on each side by longitudinal keel; femoral tooth not higher than its width at base and weakly developed; elytral interstriae evenly and weakly tuberculate.
Intraspecific variation.
Length 5.00–
6.27 mm
.
Material examined.
Holotype
male (
IZCAS
): #2730, “P.R.
CHINA
,
Yunnan
,
Cang Shan
at
Dali
,
N25°40'12"
E100°06'10"
,
05.vii.2011
, 3740m, sift37,
V.Grebennikov
”
.
Paratypes
(
CNC
,
IZCAS
,
MTD
): 8 exx, #2731–33 and 5 exx not numbered, same data as holotype
.
Distribution.
Eastern slope on Cang Shan range above the city of Dali,
Yunnan
,
China
; sympatrically with
N. electra
sp. n.
Elevation:
3740 m
.
Etymology.
The species epithet is a Latinized Greek mythical name of Maia, eldest of the seven Pleiades, mother of Hermes by Zeus; noun in apposition.