A monograph on the genus Tetraserica from the Indochinese region (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini)
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Fabrizi, Silvia
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Dalstein, Vivian
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Ahrens, Dirk
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.837.32057
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Tetraserica microfurcata
sp. n.
Figures 23, 49
Type material examined.
Holotype: ♂ "Laos, 1-16.V.1999, Louangpharabang pr., 23°33-4'N, E102°14'E, Ban Song Cha (5km W), 1200 m,
Vit
Kuban
leg./ coll. P.
Pacholatko"
(CPPB). Paratypes: 1 ♂ "Vietnam: Cuc phong, Ninh binh, 3-10.V.1966 Exp. Gy.
Topal
/ Nr. 268 beaten from bushes near creek" (ZFMK), 1 ♀ "Vietnam: Cuc phong, Ninh binh, 3-10.V.1966 Exp. Gy.
Topal
/ Nr. 252 singled material" (HNHM), 1 ♂ "Vietnam: Cuc phong, Ninh binh, 6-18.V.1966
Topal
/ Nr. 387 from trap in soil" (HNHM).
Description.
Length of body: 8.6 mm; length of elytra: 6.5 mm; maximum width: 5.3 mm. Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.57. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.38. Metatibia moderately long and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3.43; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.
Aedeagus: Fig. 23
I-K
. Habitus: Fig. 23L.
Female unknown.
Variation.
Length of body: 7.6-8.6 mm; length of elytra: 5.5-6.5 mm; maximum width: 4.5-5.3 mm.
Diagnosis.
Tetraserica microfurcata
sp. n. differs from the similar
T. microspinosa
sp. n. by the weakly curved, long and filiform left paramere, which is split in apical quarter into two fine branches, as well as the short and slim right paramere being strongly bent at middle.
Etymology.
The name of the new species (adjective in nominative singular) is derived from the combined Greek and Latin words micros (small) and furcatus (forked), with reference to the superficial split of the left paramere into two filiform branches.