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
7176752
3C258069-729B-4E0F-85F6-780514E61235
Phaedon igori
Daccordi & Ge
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 14–15
)
Description. Body length 2.0–
2.4 mm
, width
1.6–1.8 mm
. Body hemisferic, rather convex, hind wings absent. Colour. Hooker’s Green to cobalt blue; apex of tibiae, tarsi, antennomeres 1–3 and mandible mahogany red.
Head. Vertex and frons with sparse and small punctures. Antennae shown as
Figs 15A, 15B
.
Thorax and abdomen. Pronotum length
0.5–0.6 mm
, width
1.2–1.4 mm
; central disc with very sparse punctures; lateral side slightly denser. Scutellum subtriangular and impunctate. Elytra length
1.7–2.2 mm
; with regular striae, punctures of striae sparse and fine, interspace with very few fine punctures. Underside. Hypomeron with dense punctures similar to prosternum; prosternal process wide, with some punctures along the sides, and wrinkled in the middle; metaventrite and abdomen with sparse punctures; antero-lateral plate of metaventrite large and impunctate.
Aedeagus. Shown as
Figs 15C, 15D
.
Spermatheca. Shown as
Fig. 15E
.
Material
examined.
Holotype
male,
China
,
Sichuan
, E. of
Danba, E.
of
Suopo
(
30°52'54"N
,
102°03'05"E
–
30°52' 46"N
,
102°03'34"E
; elev. 4 560 – 4
780 m
,
14 August 2004
, coll.
Belousov
and
Kabak
(
ZIN
).
Paratypes
2 female
, same data as holotype (
1 female
in
IZCAS
,
1 female
in
MDC
)
.
Etymology. The speces is named for the Russian Entomologist, Prof. Igor Lopatin, who passed away in 2012.
Remarks. The new species can be distinguished from the other species of the genus by the following characters: body hemisferic, mouth part narrow, slender, rostriform, elytra striae with sparse and fine punctures.
Distribution.
China
(
Sichuan
).