Itagonia elegans Medvedev, 1998

Shi, Ai-Min, Yuan, Shi-Bin & Wu, Chun-Lian, 2010, Three new species of Itagonia Reitter, 1887 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Blaptini) from Sichuan, China, Zootaxa 2573, pp. 57-68 : 67

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.197440

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6201093

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scientific name

Itagonia elegans Medvedev, 1998
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Itagonia elegans Medvedev, 1998

( Figs 50–56 View FIGURES 50 – 56 , 63–64 View FIGURES 61 – 64. 61 – 62 )

Medvedev, 1998: 574–575; Medvedev, 2001: 119, 216, 327; Shi & Ren, 2007: 34; Liu & Ren, 2009: 447.

Remarks. Medvedev (1998) described this species based on 2 males labeled: Holotype: male, China, Sichuan, Songpan, 1894 (M.M. Berezovskii). Paratype: male “Sze-tchuan, 26. VII. 1885, G. Patanin [G. Potanin]”. On 21 July 2009, a few specimens of this species were collected by the authors from the type locality. Although the types were unavailable in our study, we are confident in our identification, permitting us to describe the formerly unknown female of this species here.

Material examined. CHINA: Sichuan, Songpan: 7 ɗɗ and 2 ΨΨ, 32º40' N, 103º37' E, 2950 m, 21 Jul. 2009, collected by Ai-min Shi and Shi-bin Yuan ( MCWNU).

Female ( Figs 50–56 View FIGURES 50 – 56 ). Body wider. Antennae ( Fig. 50 View FIGURES 50 – 56 ) shorter than in male, when posteriorly extended, reaching beyond the middle of pronotum. Pronotum ( Fig. 51 View FIGURES 50 – 56 ) noticeably transverse, 1.36–1.42 times as wide as long, 1.85–1.90 times as wide as head. Elytra ovate, 1.20–1.27 times as long as wide, 1.45–1.51 times as wide as pronotum. Outer margin of epipleura in dorsal view concealed by outer convexity of elytra before apex. Upper spur of protibiae ( Fig. 52 View FIGURES 50 – 56 ) much larger than lower spur, but not very massive. Metatibiae with inner apical spur ( Fig. 53 View FIGURES 50 – 56 ) widening apicad, spatulate. Ventral surface of pro- and mesotarsomeres without hair brushes or apical tuft of pale hairs. Ovipositor as in Figs 54–55 View FIGURES 50 – 56 . Spiculum ventrale as in Fig. 56 View FIGURES 50 – 56 .

Measurements. Male body length 10.2–12.5 mm, width 5.2–5.9 mm; female body length 12.1–12.2 mm, width 6.6–6.9 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Tenebrionidae

Genus

Itagonia

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