New species, new synonymies and a new record of the genus Cryptogonus Mulsant, 1850 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from China
Author
Huo, Lizhi
Author
Li, Wenjing
Author
Chen, Xiaosheng
Author
Ren, Shunxiang
Author
Wang, Xingmin
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Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift
2015
62
2
203
210
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.62.5242
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.62.5242
1860-1324-2-203
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Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Coccinellidae
Cryptogonus fusiformis Huo & Ren
sp. n.
Figure 2
Diagnosis.
This species can be distinguished from other
Cryptogonus
species by its fusiform penis guide in ventral view (Fig. 2f).
Figure 2.
Cryptogonus fusiformis
Huo et Ren, sp. n. (a) dorsal view; (b) frontal view; (c) lateral view; (d) abdomen, male; (e) penis; (f) apex of penis; (g) ventral view of tegmen; (h) lateral view of tegmen. Scale bars:
a-d
, 0.5 mm;
e-g
, 0.1 mm.
Description.
TL: 2.68 mm, TW: 2.14 mm, TH: 1.36 mm, TL/TW: 1.25; PL/PW: 0.51; EL/EW: 1.00, HW/PW: 0.58; PW/EW: 0.72. ID/HW: 0.50.
Body rounded, densely covered with short, silver white pubescence (Fig. 2
a-b
). Base of head yellow, anterior part black and clypeus dark brown. Dorsum entirely black. Ventral side black except legs and abdomen partially reddish brown.
Punctures on frons dense and coarse, 0.5-1.0 diameters apart. Punctures on pronotum and elytra fine and sparse, 2-4 diameters apart. Punctures on metaventrite fine and sparse at middle, 5 diameters apart, coarse and dense on both sides, 0.3 diameters apart.
Male genitalia. Penis long with apex pointed. Penis capsule with longer outer branch and short inner one. Tegminal strut slightly longer than tegmen. Parameres 2 times length of phallobase with apex densely setose (Fig. 2g). Penis guide, in lateral view strongly curved as S-shape, equivalent to parameres, in ventral view gradually broadening toward midlength, narrowing to pointed apex (Fig. 2f).
Female genitalia. Unknown.
Types.
Holotype: 1 male, CHINA: Yunnan Prov.: Mengdui Town, Zhenkang County, 23°54.16′N, 98°54.02′E, ca 1400 m, 18.V.2008, Wang XM et al. leg. (SCAU).
Distribution.
China (Yunnan).
Etymology.
The specific epithet is a Latin adjective referring to its fusiform penis guide in ventral view.