Seven new species of the genus Chrysolina Motschulsky from China (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae)
Author
Ge, Si-Qin
Author
Daccordi, Mauro
Author
Li, Wen-Zhu
Author
Yang, Xing-Ke
text
Zootaxa
2011
2736
31
43
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.200885
29124bf9-c38f-4701-8bff-424503115278
1175-5326
200885
Chrysolina gyacaensis
Daccordi
et
Yang
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 3
A–E)
Diagnosis.
Bronze with metallic purple; hind wing absent; pronotum with lateral callus separated by shallow punctured depression only at basal part, with dense punctures near basal lateral side; elytron with punctures forming 9 irregular single striae; inner edge of epipleura with 3 bristles; Hypomera smooth, without punctures; pygidium without longitudinal depression medially.
Description
(based on
holotype
):
Colour
: Bronze with metallic purple; two basal segment of antennae reddish brown; compound eyes bronze; apex of mandible, last segment of maxillary palpi, last segment of labial palpi, apex of onychium reddish brown.
Body length:
5.52 mm
, body width:
2.96 mm
.
Body elongate-ovoid (
Fig. 3
A), moderate large, convex in lateral view; hind wing absent.
FIGURE 3.
Chrysolina gyacaensis
,
sp. nov.
A. Habitus; B. Left antenna (male); C. Aedeagus, lateral view; D. Aedeagus apex, dorsal view; E. Tarsus, male; scale bar: 1.0 mm.
Head
: Clypeus with sparse pubescence, moderate and small punctures; frons shagreened, with dense and moderate punctures; coronal suture present, frontal suture present, but very thin, shallow; vertex with sparse and moderate punctures; compound eyes oblong, dorso-ventral eye length
0.22 mm
, interocular distance
1.28 mm
; distance from antennal insertion to eye:
0.19 mm
; distance from antennal insertion to clypeus:
0.08 mm
; mandible with two denticles, outer surface with sparse pubescence, with moderate and dense punctures; third segment of maxillary palpi shorter than fourth, apex of fourth segment of maxillary palpi truncate; antennae with basal segments narrow, widening from segments 6 to 11, antennal segment (1–11) length (in millimeter): 0.32: 0.16: 0.24: 0.24: 0.24: 0.24: 0.16: 0.16: 0.16: 0.16: 0.36 (
Fig. 3
B).
Pronotum
: Length:
1.60 mm
; width:
2.80 mm
. Sides of anterior and posterior angles without setigerous punctures; central disc with moderate and sparse punctures, similar to those of head; with lateral callus separated by shallow punctured depression only at basal part; with dense punctures near basal lateral side; lateral punctures of disc small and sparse.
Scutellum
: Sub-triangular, with sparse punctures.
Elytra
: Suture length:
4.16 mm
; width of elytra:
3.44 mm
; elytron with punctures forming 9 regular single striae, sutural stria present, punctures larger than those of side of pronotum; interspaces of elytral striae with very fine and sparse punctures, with horizontal wrinkles especially on basal part; epipleuron horizontal, with outer bor- der sharp, inner edge of epipleura with 3 sparse bristles apically.
Legs
: Femora and tibiae with sparse, moderate punctures, sparse pubescence, apices of tibiae with dense pubescence; tarsomere1 of male protarsus enlarged; hind tarsi entirely pubescent beneath; relative lengths of hind tarsomeres: 5>1>3>2, tarsomere 5 not ventrally toothed (
Fig. 3
E).
Venter
: Hypomera smooth, without punctures; middle part of intercoxal prosternal process more than half width of apex; prosternal process with dense and moderate punctures, truncate and not emarginate behind; mesoventrite shorter than prosternum between coxae; metaventrite with dense, moderate punctures, with sparse pubescence; metaventrite shorter than prosternum; mesepisternum, mesepimeron and metepisternum without punctures; abdomen with dense, moderate punctures, sparse pubescence; last abdominal sternite of male without emargination; pygidium with arcuate apex, without longitudinal depression medially.
Median lobe of aedeagus
(
Figs. 3
C–D): Basal part as wide as apex; curved in lateral view. Flagellum slender.
Female unknown.
Remarks.
Members of the new species are similar to those of
Chrysolina mauroi
Lopatin
, but the punctures of pronotum are different: in the new species, the lateral callus is present only at base in,
Chrysolina mauroi
, the lateral callus is present on the whole length; and the aedeagus is also different.
Type
material.
Holotype
:
male,
China
: Xizang: Gyaca, 1981, leg. Unknown (
IZAS
).
Distribution.
Xizang (Fig. 8).
Etymology.
The new species is named for the locality of the
type
specimen.