Tetraserica khaosoidaoensis, Fabrizi, Silvia, Dalstein, Vivian & Ahrens, Dirk, 2019

Fabrizi, Silvia, Dalstein, Vivian & Ahrens, Dirk, 2019, A monograph on the genus Tetraserica from the Indochinese region (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini), ZooKeys 837, pp. 1-155 : 72-73

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.837.32057

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4A188229-3580-4DB7-B122-9F131F6A0AC8

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/51AB518E-0306-4DC2-9C8D-3C4CFEBA1B16

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:51AB518E-0306-4DC2-9C8D-3C4CFEBA1B16

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scientific name

Tetraserica khaosoidaoensis
status

sp. n.

Tetraserica khaosoidaoensis sp. n. Figures 32, 48

Type material examined.

Holotype: ♂ "E Thailand, 5.-13.5. Chanthaburi Dist. Khao Soi Dao, 1998, J. Horák leg./ coll. P Pacholátko / 129 Sericini Asia spec." (CPPB). Paratype: 1 ♂ "E Thailand, 5.-13.5. Chanthaburi Dist. Khao Soi Dao, 1998, M Knížek lgt./ coll. P Pacholátko” (ZFMK).

Description.

Length of body: 7.4 mm; length of elytra: 5.6 mm; maximum width: 4.6 mm. Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Eyes small, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.54. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.68. Metatibia short and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.

Aedeagus: Fig. 32 A–C. Habitus: Fig. 32D.

Female unknown.

Variation.

Length of body: 7.4-7.8 mm; length of elytra: 5.5-5.6 mm; maximum width: 4.6-4.8 mm.

Diagnosis.

Tetraserica khaosoidaoensis sp. n. is very similar to T. nussi sp. n. in shape of the aedeagus; but differs by the distinctly shorter right paramere as well as the only slightly bent right paramere.

Etymology.

The new species is named after the type locality, Khao Soi Dao (adjective in the nominative singular).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

Genus

Tetraserica