A monograph on the genus Tetraserica from the Indochinese region (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini)
Author
Fabrizi, Silvia
Author
Dalstein, Vivian
Author
Ahrens, Dirk
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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 cattienensis
sp. n.
Figures 22, 46
Type
material examined.
Holotype: ♂ "Museum Leiden Viet Nam (Dong Nai Prov.)
Cat
Tien
NP: Ficus trail. 9-26.iv.2007. leg. May Phu Quy, Nguyen Than Mahn/ humid lowland forest; in malaise traps; 250 m 11°26'20, 6"N, 107°25'42"E" (RMNH). Paratypes: 1 ♂ "Museum Leiden Viet Nam (Dong Nai Prov.)
Cat
Tien
N.P.: Ficus trail. 9-26.iv.2007. leg. May Phu Quy, Nguyen Than Mahn/ humid lowland forest; in malaise traps; 250 m 11°26'20, 6"N, 107°25'42"E" (ZFMK), 1 ♂ "Museum Leiden Viet Nam (Dong Nai Prov.)
Cat
Tien
N.P.: Ficus trail. 10.iv-15.v.2007. Leg. May Phu Quy, Nguyen Than Mahn/ humid lowland forest; in malaise traps; 250 m. 11°26'20, 6"N, 107°25'42"E" (RMNH), 1 ♂ "S Vietnam, 1-5.5.1994 Nam Cat Tien Nat. park P.
Pacholatko
& L.
Dembicky
leg./ coll. P.
Pacholatko
/VS 118" (CPPB).
Description.
Length of body: 8.4 mm; length of elytra: 6 mm; maximum width: 5 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: 0.67. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.61. Metatibia short and wide, ratio width/length: 1/2.35; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.
Aedeagus: Fig. 22
A-C
. Habitus: Fig. 22D.
Figure 22.
A-D
Tetraserica cattienensis
sp. n. (holotype)
E-H
T. multiangulata
sp. n. (holotype) A, E aedeagus, left side lateral view C, G aedeagus, right side lateral view B, F parameres, dorsal view D, H habitus. Scale bars: 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.
Female unknown.
Variation.
Length of body: 7.9-8.4 mm; length of elytra: 5.9-6 mm; maximum width: 4.9-5.0 mm.
Diagnosis.
Tetraserica cattienensis
sp. n. differs from all other
Tetraserica
species in having a straight or slightly convex posterior margin of the metafemur, small eyes, and the short median phallobasal lamina being half as long as phallobase. From the similar
T. bansanpakiana
sp. n. and
T. margheritae
sp. n.,
T. cattienensis
sp. n. differs by the robust spines on the ventral margin of metatibia being subequal in length.
Etymology
.
The new species is named after the type locality,
Cat
Tien
NP (adjective in the nominative singular).