Revision of Taiwanaenidea Kimoto, 1984 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)
Author
Lee, Chi-Feng
Author
Beenen, Ron
text
Zootaxa
2015
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153
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4020.1.6
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Taiwanaenidea jungchangi
Lee and Beenen
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 38–51
)
FIGURES 38–43.
Habitus of
Taiwanaenidea jungchangi
sp. nov.
38. Male, dorsal view; 39. Ditto, ventral view; 40. Female, dorsal view; 41. Ditto, ventral view; 42. Female, dorsal view, color variation; 43. Ditto, ventral view.
Type
locality.
Taitung county, Hsiangyang (№№),
23°14’N
,
120°59’E
,
2300 m
.
Type
material (n= 14).
Holotype
♂ (
TARI
): “
Taiwan
: Taitung (18712) / Hsiangyang (№№) /
01.IV.2011
, leg. J.-C. Chen [p, w]”.
Paratypes
:
1♂
(
TARI
), same as
holotype
but with code number “18173”;
1♂
, 2♀♀: “
Taiwan
: Taitung / Hsiangyang (№№) /
28.III.2014
, leg. W.-C. Huang [p, w]” (
TARI
); 1♀: “
Taiwan
: Taitung (#25185) / Hsiangyang (№№) /
29.III.2014
, leg. J.-C. Chen [p, w]” (
TARI
); 1♀: “
Taiwan
: Chiayi (#27306) / Tzuchung [Dd] /
08.V.2015
, leg. J.-C. Chen [p, w]” (
TARI
); 1♀: “
Taiwan
: Taichung / Pilu [sª] /
22.IV.2015
, leg. C.-F. Lee [p, w]” (
TARI
); 1♀: “
TAIWAN
: Hualien, Guanyuan (DZffi), alt. / 2200~
2300m
,
07.V.2006
, /
24°11’12”N
121°20’00”E
, leg.
Y
.-F. Hsu [p, w]” (
TARI
); 5♀♀: “
Taiwan
: Kaoshiung (#26840–26844) / Tienchih (⋏E) /
01.IV.2015
, leg. C.-F. Lee [p, w]” (
TARI
,
RBCN
).
FIGURES 44–51.
Diagnostic characters of
Taiwanaenidea jungchangi
sp. nov.
44. Antenna, male; 45. Antenna, female; 46. Penis, dorsal view; 47. Penis, lateral view; 48. Penis, ventral view; 49. Gonocoxae; 50. Abdominal ventrite VIII; 51. Spermatheca.
Differential diagnosis.
Taiwanaenidea jungchangi
sp. nov.
, is similar to
T. strigosa
with micro-reticulation on head and pronotum, but
T. jungchangi
sp. nov.
has shining elytra that lacks micro-reticulation. This is different from
T. strigosa
which has micro-reticulation on the elytra. In addition, the aedeagus of
T. jungchangi
sp. nov.
shows a number of differences from that of
T. strigosa
including the dorsally hook-like apices of aedeagus (straight apices in
T. strigosa
), endophallus with baso-lateral apophyses and short dorsal tube-like sclerite (lacking basolateral apophyses and long dorsal tube-like structure in
T. strigosa
), dorsally covered without any sclerite (short sclerite with two teeth in
T. strigosa
); two lateral, short, curved sclerites (sclerite lateral, elongate with two tapering apices in
T. strigosa
); absence of basal sclerite (presence of basal flat sclerite in
T. strigosa
).
Males.
Length
3.8–4.5 mm
, width
1.4–1.6 mm
. General color (
Figs 38–39
) bluish bronze, antenna and leg yellowish brown, sometimes antenna darkened. Discs of head and pronotum with micro-reticulation. Head strongly constricted behind eye. Antenna (
Fig. 44
) filiform and 0.9X long as body, ratio of length of antennomeres III to XI about 1.0: 1.4: 1.1: 1.0: 1.1: 1.2: 1.2: 1.1: 1.4; ratio of length to width from antennomere III to XI about 3.4: 4.4: 3.5: 3.2: 3.4: 3.7: 3.7: 3.6: 4.1. Pronotum as long as wide, narrowed at middle. Elytra 1.9X longer than wide, parallel-sided. Tarsomeres I of front and middle legs swollen. Median lobe of abdominal ventrite V rectangular, apical margin slightly concave. Penis (
Figs 46–48
) elongate, widest at apical 1/4, narrowed at basal 2/ 5, deeply bifurcate from apical 1/4 to apex, apically tapering, apex acute and curved upwards; tectum well sclerotized, apex widely rounded; apex straight in lateral view, abruptly curved at apical 1/3; endophallus with one short, longitudinal, tube-like sclerite, with baso-laeral apophyses; laterally covered with two short setae, one much longer than the other, apex hook-like; ventrally covered with one flat sclerite.
Females.
Length
4.8–5.2 mm
, width 1.8–2.0 mm. Similar to male (
Figs 40–41
), but head slightly constricted behind eyes. Antenna (
Fig. 45
) 0.8X as long as body; ratio of length of antennomeres III to XI about 1.0: 1.3: 1.1: 1.1: 1.1: 1.1: 1.1: 1.0: 1.4; ratio of length to width from antennomere III to XI about 3.5: 4.6: 3.9: 3.9: 4.0: 4.0: 3.9: 3.7: 4.6. Apical margin of abdominal ventrite V truncate. Gonocoxae (
Fig. 49
) slender, and combined together from basal 1/3 to apical 1/5, apex of each gonocoxa widely rounded, with eight long setae; abruptly widened at basal 1/3; base wide. Ventrite VIII (
Fig. 50
) well sclerotized; apex wide, apical margin rounded; disc with three extremely long setae at each side, one row of long setae near apical margin and one row of short setae along apical margin; spiculum long. Spermathecal receptaculum (
Fig. 51
) strongly swollen, distinctly separated from pump; pump strongly curved; spermathecal duct slender, deeply projecting into receptaculum.
Variation.
One female has yellowish bronze body but with dark brown head except frontal area and antenna (
Figs 42–43
).
Host plant.
Alnus formosana
(Burkill ex Forbes & Hemsl.) Makino (Betulaceae)
.
Distribution.
Central and south
Taiwan
(
Fig. 22
).
Taiwanaenidea jungchangi
sp. nov.
is a rare but widespread species. It is sympatric with
T. strigosa
in Kuanyuan (Hualien County).
Etymology.
This new species is named after Mr. Jung-Chang Chen, who is a member of TCRT and the first to collect this new species.