A monograph on the genus Tetraserica from the Indochinese region (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini)
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Fabrizi, Silvia
Author
Dalstein, Vivian
Author
Ahrens, Dirk
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2019
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.837.32057
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.837.32057
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Tetraserica miniatula (Moser, 1915)
Figures 7, 56
Neoserica miniatula
Moser, 1915: 171.
Tetraserica miniatula
:
Ahrens and Fabrizi 2016
: 125.
Type material examined.
Lectotype (here designated): ♂ "Pegu India/
Neoserica miniatula
Type ♂ Moser" (ZMHB). Paralectotype: 1 ♀ "Pegu India/
Neoserica miniatula
Type ♀ Moser" (ZMHB).
Redescription. Length of body: 8.0 mm; length of elytra: 5.8 mm; maximum width: 4.8 mm. Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Eyes large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.72. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.62. Metatibia moderately long and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3.07; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.
Female: Antennal club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Eyes smaller than in male, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.64. Pygidium flat.
Aedeagus: Fig. 7
A-C
. Habitus: Fig. 7D.
Figure 7.
A-D
Tetraserica miniatula
(Moser, 1915) (syntype)
E-H
T. univestris
Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016 sp. n. (holotype)
I-L
T. jinghongensis
Liu et al., 2014 (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. Scale bars: 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.