Denierella minutiserra Tan, 1988

Yang, Yu-Xia & Ren, Guo-Dong, 2007, Review of Chinese species of the genus Denierella Kaszab with a key to the worldwide species (Coleoptera, Meloidae), Zootaxa 1642, pp. 53-59 : 57-58

Denierella minutiserra Tan, 1988

( Figs 5–6 , 9 , 12, 23–27)

Denierella minutiserra Tan, 1988 . Insects of Mt. Namjagbarwa region of Xizang: 289.

Diagnosis. Male ( Fig. 5 ). Body length 13–20 mm, maximal width on elytra 5.0–7.0 mm. Body pitch - black, entirely black pubescent, meso- and meta-femur and tibia ventrally with dense moderately long black setae. Head ( Fig. 9 ) red, oily shiny, quadrate, coarsely and very densely punctuate. Antenna thick, reaching twothirds of the body, antennomere II slightly longer than wide. Pronotum coarsely and very densely punctate, surface between punctures opaque. All tarsal claws (Fig. 12) covered with minute teeth ventrally along dorsal blades. Metatibia with inner apical spur thin and pointed, outer one slightly shorter, flattened and blunt. Elytra obviously widened towards apex, humeri angled. External genitalia as in figs. 23–27.

Female ( Fig. 6 ). Antenna thinner, reaching the middle of body. Frons with impunctate areas very small. Meso- and metafemur and tibia ventrally without moderately long black setae.

Type locality and material. “Xizang”. Holotype and Paratypes are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China.

Material examined. 1 male, 3 females, Tianlin (106°14'E, 24°18'N), Guangxi, 5 June 2002, X.J. Yang coll.; 10 males, 16 females, Dali (100°19'E, 25°69'N), Yunnan, 8–10 June 1998, B.Y. Mao coll.; 4 females, Lchun (10242'E, 2301'N), Yunnan, 28 July 2004, J. Li and C.X. Yuan coll.; 8 males, 11 females, Maguan (1044'E, 2301'N), Yunnan, 21 July 2006, Y.X. Yang coll.; 2 males, Wenshan (10424'E, 2337'N), Yunnan, 19 July 2006, Y.X. Yang coll.; 1 female, Jinping (10324'E, 2277'N), Yunnan, 24 July 2006, Y.X. Yang coll..

Distribution. CHINA: Xizang, Guangxi, and Yunnan.

Figures

FIGURE 1 – 6. Adult, dorsal view (upper, male; lower, female). 1 – 2, Denierella striolata sp. nov. 3 – 4, Denierella serrata Kaszab, 1952. 5 – 6, Denierella minutiserra Tan, 1988.

FIGURE 7 – 9, Head, dorsal view (male); 10 – 12, Tarsal claw, lateral view. 7, 10, Denierella striolata sp. nov. 8, 11, Denierella serrata Kaszab, 1952. 9, 12, Denierella minutiserra Tan, 1988.