Taxonomy of the genus Aetheomorpha Lacordaire (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini) from China, with description of five new species Author Wang, Feng-Yan Author Zhou, Hong-Zhang text Journal of Natural History 2012 2012-06-30 46 23 - 24 1407 1440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.673642 journal article 55830 10.1080/00222933.2012.673642 1a3010f6-2493-480f-94b6-8d02a08c7724 1464-5262 5200117 Aetheomorpha furcata Medvedev and Kantner , 2002 ( Figures 6A–I , 12F ) Medvedev and Kantner, 2002: 262 (type locality: Thailand , prov. Mae Hong Son , Soppong ; holotype deposited: NHMB ) . Material examined CHINA : Yunnan : one female , Xishuangbanna , Mengla , 7 May 1959 , leg. Fuji Pu ; one male , one female , Xishuangbanna , Mengla , 20 May 1959 , leg. Facai Zhang ; one male , one female , Xishuangbanna , Mengla , 24 May 1959 , leg. Zhenfu Li ; one female , Xishuangbanna , Mengla , 8 June 1959 , leg. Yiran Zhang ; one male , two females , Xishuangbanna , Meng’a , 2 July 1958 , leg. Shuyong Wang ; one male , Xishuangbanna , Jinghong , 6 July 1958 , leg. Xuwu Meng ; two females , Xishuangbanna , Jinghong , 6 August 1958 , leg. Xuwu Meng ; one male , Xishuangbanna , Jinghong , 10 May 1959 , leg. Xuezhong Zhang ; two females , Xishuangbanna , Jinghong , 25 May 1959 , leg. Xuezhong Zhang ; one female , Xishuangbanna , Menghun , 12 June 1958 , leg. Leyi Zheng ; one male , one female , Xishuangbanna , Xiaomengyang , 5 July 1957 , leg. Lingchao Zang ; one female , Xishuangbanna , Damenglong , 7 July 1958 , leg. Chunpei Hong ; one female , Xishuangbanna , Mengzhe , 3 July 1958 , leg. Shuyong Wang ; one female , Xishuangbanna , Mengna , 28 June 1959 , leg. Fuji Pu ; one female , Yiwubanna , Menglun , 25 July 1959 , leg. Yiran Zhang ; one female , Kunming , 1 June 1957 , leg. Lingchao Zang ( IZ-CAS ) . Distribution China ( Yunnan ), Thailand , Laos . This species is recorded for the first time from China . Remarks Aetheomorpha furcata Medvedev and Kantner, 2002 is close to A. decemnotata ( Jacoby, 1892 ) in the colour pattern: the pronotum is completely fulvous and elytron is covered with four black spots. The obviously broad bidentate aedeagal apex is a useful character by which to recognize A. furcata Medvedev and Kantner. Moreover , this species also has the following characters: vertex and scutellum fulvous, body more slender, spermathecal duct very long, loosely coiled dozens of times with a thickened base. Moreover, the dorsal rectal sclerites are different from those in the other congeneric species, central sclerite is semicircular, lateral ones are sub-triangular.