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
3838
2
151
173
journal article
5281
10.11646/zootaxa.3838.2.1
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Niphadomimus sterope
sp. n.
Figs. 10
,
11I
.
Diagnostic description.
Holotype
, male (
Figs. 10
,
11I
). Genbank accession:
KJ427737
. Length:
3.69 mm
. Color black with reddish hue; prosternal depression delimited on each side by longitudinal keel; femoral tooth not higher than its width at base and moderately developed; elytral interstriae evenly and pronouncedly tuberculate.
Intraspecific variation.
Length
3.55–3.69 mm
.
Material examined.
Holotype
(
Figs. 10
,
11I
) male (
IZCAS
): #4475, “
CHINA
,
Yunnan
,
Haba Shan
,
N27°20'58“
E100°05'58"
,
19.vi.2012
, 4114m, sift24,
V. Grebennikov
”
.
Paratype
(
CNC
): 1 ex, #4480, “
CHINA
,
Yunnan
,
Haba Shan
,
N27°21'01"
E100°05'44"
,
21.vi.2012
, 4072m, sift26,
V. Grebennikov
”
.
Distribution.
Mount Haba in
Yunnan
,
China
. Elevation:
4072–4114 m
.
Etymology.
The species epithet is a Latinized Greek mythical name of Sterope, one of the Pleiades, mother of Oenomaus by Ares; noun in apposition.