A new species of the genus Meiyingia Holzchuh, 2010 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae) from China
Author
Li, Zhu
Author
Tian, Lichao
Author
Chen, Li
text
Zootaxa
2015
3964
5
596
600
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3964.5.11
dfc68f4f-ce5f-4529-97da-54ea608c288e
1175-5326
242017
11009BD5-EEE0-4DF8-B527-A18B2F2BA081
Meiyingia jinyunensis
Li & Chen
,
sp. n.
Type-locality.
Mt. Jinyunshan Natural Reserve, Beibei district, Chongqing,
China
.
Type
material.
Holotype
: male, Mt. Jinyunshan, Beibei, Chongqing [
N 29°50′
18″,
E106°23′
48″,
568m
], Shuqing Shi
leg
. (SWU);
Paratypes
:
1 male
and
1 female
, Mt. Jinyunshan, Beibei, Chongqing,
China
, Shuqing Shi
leg
. (SWU).
Etymology.
The name refers to the
type
locality.
Description
.
Habitus of adults
(
Fig. 1–2
). Moderate body size, 12.0–
12.1 mm
long;
2.1mm
wide between humeri; Head, antennae, stridulating organ black. Pronotum yellowish brown with a black spot at front middle. Elytra black with dark blue luster. Legs dark brown. Antennae with fringe of long setae on venter of antennomeres 3–6. Elytral surface densely clothed with pale brown pubescence. All covered with brown hairs.
FIGURE 1.
habitus of holotype: a, dorsal view; b,ventral view.
Body compressed and elongate. Head compressed and coarsely punctate, narrower than pronotum at widest point. Frons nearly flat, transverse; Eyes small with fine facets, divided into two widely separated lobes; lower lobes longer than genae. Interantennal region strongly impressed with antennal tubercles strongly elevated. Antenna of male extending beyond elytral apex by 3 antennomeres; third antennomere longer than scape and fourth; antennomere ratio: 6.3 - 1.0 - 10.0 - 8.6 - 8.6 - 5.9 - 5.9 - 4.0 - 3.6 - 3.1 - 2.7; scape stout and cylindrical, surface with coarse grain; third to seventh antennomere with spiny processes ventrally (
Fig. 3
b). Antenna of female reaching elytral apex, and spine absent ventrally (
Fig. 3
c).
Pronotum as long as wide, disc slightly convex with sparse punctures; each side convex posteriorly, with wrinkles. Pronotum of female lacking wrinkles. Scutellum almost square, concave in middle. Stridulatory organ trapezoid, with sparse, erect, long, pale hairs on the surface (
Fig. 3
d &3e). Elytra 4 times longer than humeral width, narrowed towards the apex; apex rounded; disc punctate. Profemora stouter than meso- and metafemora.
Hind
femora reaching the posterior edge of second visible abdominal segment. First hind tarsal segment longer than following two combined. Metasternum with concave. Prosternal process extremely short. Abdomen with small punctures, with relatively sparse moderately long semi-erect pale yellow hairs. Abdomen of female lacking depression or specific hairs.
Male genitalia
: Lateral lobes of tegmen elongate, wide at base, dorsal surface apically covered with long setae (
Fig. 4b
). Median lobe stout, median struts less than half length of median lobe; ventral plate longer than dorsal plate; ventral plate with apex sharpened (
Fig. 4a
)
Hind
Wing (
Fig. 4
c): Length:
9.6 mm
; width: 3.0 mm. Main branch strong; r3 long; r4 weak, nearly absent; with long
RP
; MP3+4 forked in the end; two branches in McuF; AP3+4 strong.
Distribution.
China
: Chongqing.