Niphadomimus sterope, Grebennikov, 2014

Grebennikov, Vasily V., 2014, DNA barcode and phylogeography of six new high altitude wingless Niphadomimus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) from Southwest China, Zootaxa 3838 (2), pp. 151-173 : 162

Niphadomimus sterope sp. n.

Figs. 10 , 11I .

Diagnostic description. Holotype, male ( Figs. 10 , 11I ). Genbank accession: KJ427737 . Length: 3.69 mm. Color black with reddish hue; prosternal depression delimited on each side by longitudinal keel; femoral tooth not higher than its width at base and moderately developed; elytral interstriae evenly and pronouncedly tuberculate.

Intraspecific variation. Length 3.55–3.69 mm.

Material examined. Holotype ( Figs. 10 , 11I ) male ( IZCAS): #4475, “ CHINA, Yunnan, Haba Shan , N27°20'58“ E100°05'58", 19.vi.2012, 4114m, sift24, V. Grebennikov ” . Paratype ( CNC): 1 ex, #4480, “ CHINA, Yunnan, Haba Shan , N27°21'01" E100°05'44", 21.vi.2012, 4072m, sift26, V. Grebennikov ” .

Distribution. Mount Haba in Yunnan, China. Elevation: 4072–4114 m.

Etymology. The species epithet is a Latinized Greek mythical name of Sterope, one of the Pleiades, mother of Oenomaus by Ares; noun in apposition.

Figures

FIGURE 10. Niphadomimus sterope sp. n., holotype, male, #4475. A–D: habitus; E: sternite 9; F–H: aedeagus and tegmen, lateral (F), dorsal (G) and ventral (H).

FIGURE 11. Niphadomimus spp., pro, meso- and metathorax, ventral (A–G, I) and left ventro-lateral (H). A: Niphadomimus alcyone sp. n., holotype, female, #2493; B: N. alcyone sp. n., paratype, female, #4429; C: N. celaeno sp. n., holotype, male, #2476; D: N electra sp. n., paratype, female, #0879; E: N. maia sp. n., holotype, male, #2730; F: N. merope sp. n., holotype, female #2201; G: N. nigriventris, male, #0796; H: N. nigriventris, female, #4697; I: N. sterope sp. n., holotype, male, #4475.