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
2015
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http://zoobank.org/3c258069-729b-4e0f-85f6-780514e61235
journal article
10.11865/zs.20150101
2095-6827
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Phaedon huizuensis
Daccordi & Ge
,
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 13
)
Description. Body length
2.9–3.2 mm
, width
1.9–2.1 mm
. Body elongate, rather convex, hind wings absent. Colour dark brown to dark green with dark blue reflection; tibiae and tarsi brick red.
Head. Vertex and frons with sparse and small punctures. Antennae shown as
Figs 13A, 13B
.
Thorax and abdomen. Pronotum length 0.9–1.0 mm, width
1.6–1.7 mm
; with sparse punctures. Scutellum subtriangular, with very sparse punctures. Elytra length
2.3–2.5 mm
; striae regular, interspace with fine and dense punctures. Epiperuron impunctate, with transversal wrinkles expecially on apical one third part. Underside. Prosternal process narrow, apex slightly widened. Hypomeron, mesoventrite, metaventrite and abdomen with dense and fine punctures. Antero-lateral plate of metaventrite large and impunctate.
Aedeagus. Shown as
Figs 13C, 13D
.
Spermatheca. Shown as
Fig. 13E
.
Material
examined.
Holotype
male,
China
, E.
Qinghai
, pass
30km
S. of
Huizu
(elev. 3
600 m
),
1–3 August 1992
(
IZCAS
)
.
Paratypes
4 female
, same data as holotype (
1 female
in
IZCAS
,
3 female
in
MDC
)
.
Etymology. The specific name is referring to the
type
locality, Huizu.
Remarks. The new species is similar to
P. alpinus
, but it can distinguished from the latter by shinning interspace of elytra striae, slender aedeagus, and almost parallel lateral sides.
Distribution.
China
(
Qinghai
).