Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae): a second species of Hypolepida Britton, 1978
Author
Allsopp, Peter G.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-02-21
4742
3
595
600
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4742.3.13
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Hypolepida
Britton, 1978
(
Figs. 1–10
)
Hypolepida
Britton 1978: 36
(original description);
Houston & Weir 1992: 308
(catalogue);
Weir
et al
. 2019: 493
.
Type
species
.
Hypolepida wilsoni
Britton, 1978
, by original designation.
Diagnosis.
Melolonthini (
sensu
Weir
et al.
2019
)
with: head, pronotum and elytra black, contrasting with brown elytra (
Figs. 1
,
7
); antennae with 10 antennomeres with a 6-lamellate or 7-lamellate club in male (
Figs. 3
,
8
); profemora and protibiae, head, pronotum, scutellum and elytra with elongate, flattened, adpressed setae (
Fig. 2
), head and disc of pronotum without long setae, pronotal hypopleura with long setae, without circular white scales contained within their punctures on either dorsal or ventral surfaces; terminal palpomere of maxillary palp with an obvious dorsal flat area; anterior face of clypeus with ratio of greatest width to mid length 4–6:1; upper surface of clypeus not deeply concave but with slightly reflexed anterior margin, outline broadly rounded; junctions between abdominal ventrites 1–5 much less obvious in the middle than on the sides; anterior edge of metafemora not concave near base; both spurs of metatibia slender, upper one slightly longer than lower; claws with a tooth on the concave side; male parameres bilaterally symmetrical (
Figs. 4–5
,
9–10
).