Revision of Phaedon Latreille from China (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Author
Ge, Si-Qin
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; E-mail: gesq @ ioz. ac. cn
Author
Daccordi, Mauro
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona 37129, Italy; E-mail: mauro. daccordi @ tiscali. it Corresponding authors, E-mails: yangxk @ ioz. ac. cn; mauro. daccordi @ tiscali. it
Author
Ren, Jing
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; E-mail: gesq @ ioz. ac. cn
Author
Yang, Xing-Ke
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; E-mail: gesq @ ioz. ac. cn
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Zoological Systematics
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http://zoobank.org/3c258069-729b-4e0f-85f6-780514e61235
journal article
10.11865/zs.20150101
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Phaedon wumingshanensis
Ge & Wang, 2002
(
Fig. 22
)
Phaedon wumingshanensis
Ge & Wang, 2002: 322
.
Description. Body length
4.8 mm
, width
2.5 mm
. Body elongate, rather convex, hind wings absent. Colour metallic greenish aeneous; underside, antennae, legs, maxillary palpi black.
Head. Frons and vertex with coarse and dense punctures. Antenna shown as
Fig. 22A
.
Thorax and abdomen. Pronotum length 1.0 mm, width
1.85 mm
; disc with two kinds of punctures, coarse punctures mainly at lateral and base, fine punctures mainly in center, and mixed among coarse punctures. Scutellum triangler, with fine punctures at base. Elytra length
2.75 mm
; punctures striae arranged in pair, 6, 7 and 8, 9 rows convergent joined together at base; ninth situated much nearer to lateral margin than eighth, very sparse; interspace flat, impunctate. Epipleura broadened at base, much narrowed behind, with coarse punctures. Underside. Prosternal process wide, apex rounded. Hypomeron, mesoventrite and metaventrite, abdomen with fine and sparse punctures. Antero-lateral plate of metaventrite small and impunctate.
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Fig. 20.
Phaedon prosternalis
Daccordi & Ge
,
sp. nov.
, SEM. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Maxillary palpi. C. Head and prothorax, ventral view. D. Head and thorax, ventral view. Scale bars: A, D =1 mm; B = 0.1 mm; C = 0.5 mm.
Spermatheca. Shown as
Fig. 22B
.
Material examined.
Holotype
male,
Sichuan
,
Wumingshan Yakou
(elev. 4
600 m
),
5 August 1982
, coll.
Shu-Yong Wang
(
IZCAS
)
.
Paratype
1 female
, same data as holotype (
IZCAS
)
.
Other materials
:
1 female
,
China
,
W. Sychuan
,
60km
E. Siangcheng
(Xiangcheng) (elev. 4 500–4
700 m
),
3 August 1996
, coll.
S. Murzin
(
MDC
)
.
Remarks. The species is distinguished from
Phaedon apterus
Wang
by pronotum with two kinds of punctures, interspace of elytra striae flat, impunctate and epipleura with coarse punctures.
Distribution.
China
(
Sichuan
).
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Fig. 21.
Phaedon prosternalis
Daccordi & Ge
,
sp. nov.
A. Antenna, male. B. Antenna, female. C. Aedeagus, dorsal view. D. Aedeagus, lateral view. E. Spermatheca. Scale bars: A–B= 0.5mm; C–D =0.2 mm; E = 0.1 mm.
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Fig. 22.
Phaedon wumingshanensis
Ge & Wang, 2002
. A. Antenna, female. B. Spermatheca. Scale bars: A = 0.5 mm; B = 0.1 mm.
Funding
The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of
China
(31472028) and National Science Fund for Fund for Fostering Talents in Basic Science (Special Subjects in Animal Taxonomy, NSFC-J1210002).
Acknowledgement
We gratefully thank
Dr. Fabrizio Rigato
and
Dr. Michele Zilioli
(
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Milano
,
Milan
,
Italy
) for the use of the SEM facilities, and warm thanks to
Dr. Luca Toledano
(
Verona
,
Italy
) for transfer SEM pictures. We also gratefully appreciate the curators and colleagues in different Museums and private collections: Ji
ř
í Hájek (
NMPC
)
,
Horst Kippenberg
(
HKC
)
,
Johannes Frisch
(
Humbolt-Universität
zu
Berlin
Museum
für
Naturkunde
,
Institute of Systematic Zoology
,
Berlin
,
Germany
),
Sharon Shute
(
BMNH
)
,
Alexander Kirejtshuk
(
ZIN
)
.