New and little known species of the subgenus Aegialia (Silluvia) (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from the Sino-Tibetan mountains
Author
Frolov, Andrey V.
text
Zootaxa
2008
1712
42
48
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274113
d32f8068-4f5e-4108-aa55-47c5b5239db7
1175-5326
274113
Aegialia (Silluvia) yunnanica
,
sp. n.
Figs. 1–3
,
13
Type
material.
Holotype
, male with the label "
CH
, W Yunnan, NE Fugong
26 56 30 N
/
98 55 14 E
26 56 46 N
/
98 56 13 E
H=
2690–3240 m
,
30.05.2006
, Belousov & Kabak leg."
Paratypes
:
2 females
with same label as the
holotype
; male with the label "
China
: Yunnan Lanping Co., Lajing, Fuhe vill., near Chanyanshan Pass,
20.VIII.2007
".
Description.
Holotype
, male (
Fig. 1
). Body length
6.2 mm
. Body uniformly black, shiny, tarsi testaceous. Clypeus rounded, without emargination in the middle. Genae indistinct, genal and frontoclypeal sutures almost absent, only feebly marked as smooth lines laterally. Eyes very small in dorsal view. Clypeus and frons densely, evenly punctate (punctures separated by 1 puncture diameter); anterior part of clypeus with sparser and smaller punctures.
Pronotum coarsely punctate (punctures separated by 1–2 diameters on disc, becoming denser laterally). Lateral and basal margins coarsely punctate, posterior angles rounded and very slightly serrate.
Scutellum triangular, impunctate basally, shiny.
Elytra with strong humeral teeth. Striae deep, punctate (punctures of striae separated by 2–3 puncture diameters, each puncture bears 1 minute yellow seta). Intervals slightly convex, impunctate.
Anterior tibiae with short lateral teeth, tibial spur slightly curved inward. Upper spur of hind tibia a bit shorter than tarsomere 1, tarsomere 1 as long as tarsomere 2–4 combined.
Parameres with well sclerotised apices distinctly protruding medially (
Fig. 2
). Internal sac of aedeagus with 3 distinct sclerites, one of which is relatively long and depressed (indicated in
Fig. 3
).
Female.
Distinguished from male by the anterior tibial spur not curved inward, clypeus with only minute sparse punctures, slightly distinct genae, and upper spur of hind tibia being slightly longer than tarsomere 1.
FIGURES 1–3.
Aegialia
(
Silluvia
)
yunnanica
,
sp. n.
, holotype. Fig 1. Habitus. Fig. 2. Aedeagus in dorsal and lateral view. Fig 3. Internal sac of aedeagus.Scales: A – refers to Fig 1; B – refers to Figs 2, 3.
Variability.
Body length of
paratypes
varies from 6.5–7.0 mm. Posterior angles of the pronotum are weakly serrate in one specimen.
Differential diagnosis.
Aegialia
(
Silluvia
)
yunnanica
sp. n.
can be separated from other described
Silluvia
species by the parameres with well-sclerotised apices distinctly protruding medially and internal sac sclerites with one relatively long and depressed sclerite. From
A. shashi
Stebnicka, 1977
, it can also be separated by the densely and uniformly punctate head; and from
A. (S.) kabaki
and
A. (S.) wassuensis
(
Petrovitz, 1963
)
by smooth posterior angles of pronotum. Females of
A. yunnanica
are similar to the
holotype
of
A. elongata
Landin, 1948
(redescribed by
Stebnicka 1977
) but can be separated from it in having more sparsely punctate clypeus and by the first tarsomere being shorter then 3 following tarsomeres combined.
Distribution
.
Aegialia yunnanica
sp. n.
is known from western Yunnan Province of
China
(
Fig. 13
).
Etymology.
The species name was derived from the Chinese Province of Yunnan, where the
type
series was collected.