Phaedon wumingshanensis Ge & Wang, 2002

Ge, Si-Qin, Daccordi, Mauro, Ren, Jing & Yang, Xing-Ke, 2015, Revision of Phaedon Latreille from China (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Zoological Systematics 40 (1), pp. 1-30 : 26-29

Phaedon wumingshanensis Ge & Wang, 2002 ( Fig. 22 )

Phaedon wumingshanensis Ge & Wang, 2002: 322 .

Description. Body length 4.8 mm, width 2.5 mm. Body elongate, rather convex, hind wings absent. Colour metallic greenish aeneous; underside, antennae, legs, maxillary palpi black.

Head. Frons and vertex with coarse and dense punctures. Antenna shown as Fig. 22A .

Thorax and abdomen. Pronotum length 1.0 mm, width 1.85 mm; disc with two kinds of punctures, coarse punctures mainly at lateral and base, fine punctures mainly in center, and mixed among coarse punctures. Scutellum triangler, with fine punctures at base. Elytra length 2.75 mm; punctures striae arranged in pair, 6, 7 and 8, 9 rows convergent joined together at base; ninth situated much nearer to lateral margin than eighth, very sparse; interspace flat, impunctate. Epipleura broadened at base, much narrowed behind, with coarse punctures. Underside. Prosternal process wide, apex rounded. Hypomeron, mesoventrite and metaventrite, abdomen with fine and sparse punctures. Antero-lateral plate of metaventrite small and impunctate.

© Zoological Systematics, 40(1): 1–30 Aedeagus. Lateral side almost parallel near apex, apex pointed.

Spermatheca. Shown as Fig. 22B .

Material examined. Holotype male, Sichuan, Wumingshan Yakou (elev. 4 600 m), 5 August 1982, coll. Shu-Yong Wang ( IZCAS) . Paratype 1 female, same data as holotype ( IZCAS) . Other materials: 1 female, China, W. Sychuan, 60km E. Siangcheng (Xiangcheng) (elev. 4 500–4 700 m), 3 August 1996, coll. S. Murzin ( MDC) .

Remarks. The species is distinguished from Phaedon apterus Wang by pronotum with two kinds of punctures, interspace of elytra striae flat, impunctate and epipleura with coarse punctures.

Distribution. China (Sichuan).

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Funding The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31472028) and National Science Fund for Fund for Fostering Talents in Basic Science (Special Subjects in Animal Taxonomy, NSFC-J1210002).

Acknowledgement We gratefully thank Dr. Fabrizio Rigato and Dr. Michele Zilioli ( Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Milano , Milan, Italy) for the use of the SEM facilities, and warm thanks to Dr. Luca Toledano (Verona, Italy) for transfer SEM pictures. We also gratefully appreciate the curators and colleagues in different Museums and private collections: Ji ř í Hájek ( NMPC) , Horst Kippenberg ( HKC) , Johannes Frisch ( Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin Museum für Naturkunde, Institute of Systematic Zoology, Berlin, Germany), Sharon Shute ( BMNH) , Alexander Kirejtshuk ( ZIN) .

Figures

Fig. 22. Phaedon wumingshanensis Ge & Wang, 2002.A. Antenna, female. B. Spermatheca. Scale bars: A=0.5mm; B=0.1mm.