Review of the genus Siemssenius Weise, 1922 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Taiwan, with descriptions of five new species
Author
Lee, Chi-Feng
text
Zootaxa
2016
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3
367
384
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4158.3.4
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Siemssenius rufipennis
group
Diagnosis.
Length
8.3–12.7 mm
, width
3.9–6.4 mm
. General color of adults black, only elytra red or reddish brown, last two abdominal ventrites dark reddish brown, sometimes all abdominal ventrites reddish brown (
Figs 6
A–6B). Antenna filiform, relatively longer in male (
Fig. 9
A), as long as body, antennomeres III–V apically widened, length ratios of antennomeres III to XI about 1.0: 1.3: 1.3: 1.3: 1.3: 1.1: 1.3: 1.2: 1.5, and length to width ratios of antennomeres III to XI about 2.9: 3.7: 4.0: 4.4: 4.6: 4.2: 4.7: 5.1: 7.8; relatively shorter in female (
Fig. 9
B), about 0.8x as long as body, antennomeres III–V apically widened, length ratios of antennomeres III to XI about 1.0: 1.3: 1.3: 1.3: 1.3: 1.3: 1.2: 1.1: 1.4, and length to width ratios of antennomeres III to XI about 3.2: 4.1: 3.9: 4.5: 4.5: 4.8: 4.8: 4.6: 6.5. Apical margin of abdominal ventrite V with two well developed incisions in male, surface with deep, wide, longitudinal groove, apically expanding into most of area between incisions; relative longer than in the
S. metallipennis
group; apical margin of ventrite IV with very small incision midway (
Fig. 9
E). Ventrite V not modified in female, apical margin rounded, disc without depression; apical margin of ventrite IV straight. Dense setae along apical margins of triangulate processes on abdominal ventrite VIII in female (
Figs 7
D, 8E, 10D, 11D).