Revision of the genus Miridiba Reitter, 1902 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae): genital morphotypes and new taxonomic data
Author
Gao, Chuan-bu
D260A269-8B1F-41CE-AD17-703E2BBE07F3
Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, 105 Xingang Road W., Guangzhou 510260, China. Unidad de Protección Vegetal. Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria (CITA) e Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA 2) (CITA-Universidad de Zaragoza), Avenida Montañana, 930. 50059 Zaragoza, Spain. & Buzh.
Buzh.Gao@msn.com
Author
Coca-Abia, María Milagro
AA630400-F786-448F-952E-DC786CA8644A
mcoca@aragon.es
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2021
2021-05-12
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Miridiba borneensis
(
Moser, 1918
)
comb. nov.
Figs 15
,
87
Holotrichia borneensis
Moser, 1918: 317
(
type
loc.: Borneo,
Malaysia
).
Pentelia borneensis
–
Matsumoto 2005: 479
, figs 2, 6, 12, 17, 22, 26, 30, 33, 37, 40 (combination).
Diagnosis
External morphology of adult (
Fig. 87
). Body size 19.0 mm. Dorsal surface glabrous. Clypeus almost as long as frons, with conspicuous punctures, rounded laterally, anterior edge strongly emarginate at middle. Frons punctate; carina developed, blunt. Anterior pronotal margin glabrous, regularly flanged; posterior margin glabrous, with a row of punctures near each posterior angle; lateral margins serrated and pubescent; anterior angles almost right and elevated, posterior angles obtuse and rounded. Prosternal process trapezoidal, sunk at middle. Scutellum irregularly punctate and glabrous. Elytral surface punctate, glabrous, costae weakly defined. Foretibia with dorsal carina moderately developed. Metatibia with transverse carina complete and inner margin of dorsal surface with few small spines. Pygidium with strong punctures irregularly distributed; surface glabrous, at most with a tiny seta on each puncture hardly visible, posterior margin with long pubescence on apex. Ventrite 1 not visible. Ventrites 2, 3 and 4 sparsely punctate, without conspicuous pubescence. Ventrite 5 with strong punctures and long pubescence irregularly distributed at posterior half. Ventrite 6 concave moderately bulging at anterior margin; punctures irregularly distributed and long pubescence near posterior margin. Male genitalia: parameres (
Fig. 15
) with dorsal branches wrinkled, separated from each other and convergent at distal end. Ventral branches elevated at middle and apices strongly curved downward. Parameres and phallobase joined by a membrane oval-shaped. Endophallus and female not studied.
Figs 87–89. 87
.
Miridiba borneensis
(
Moser, 1918
)
, lectotype, ♂ (MFNB). Habitus in dorsal view.
88–89
.
M. coxalis
(
Arrow, 1944
)
, lectotype, ♂ (BMNH).
88
. Habitus in dorsal view.
89
. Parameres in dorsal (A), ventral (B) and lateral (C) views. Scale bars: 87–88 = 5.0 mm; 89 = 1.0 mm.
Material examined
Lectotype
(here designated)
MALAYSIA
•
♂
;
Borneo
,
Sarawak
;
Oct. 1911
;
Kling Kang
leg.; “
Miridiba borneensis
Chuan-bu Gao
det. 2018”;
MFNB
.
Other material
MALAYSIA
•
1 ♂
;
Borneo
;
MFNB
.
Remarks
Moser (1918)
described
Holotrichia borneensis
from Borneo (
Sarawak
) without specifying the number of specimens studied.
Matsumoto (2005)
transferred this species to the genus
Pentelia
(
Brenske 1891
)
. The first author of present paper has studied a
syntype
male of
H. borneensis
(MFNB)
, which is designated herein as
lectotype
of
M. borneensis
, just in case new
syntype
specimens are found in the future.
Distribution
Malaysia
(Borneo).