Leptomias moxiensis Chen, 1992

Song, Zhenzhen, Ren, Li, Zhang, Runzhi & Zhou, Chenggang, 2017, Review of the species of Leptomias Faust from Sichuan, China (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae), ZooKeys 678, pp. 97-119 : 99-101

Leptomias moxiensis Chen, 1992

Leptomias moxiensis Chen, 1992. In Chen S (Ed) Insects of the Hengduan Mountains Region 2: 843, fig. 10.

Type material examined.

Holotype, ♂: (white): 四川 [ Sìchuān, printed] 泸定磨西 [ Lúdìng Móxī, handwritten] / 1650m [handwritten] / 中国科学院 [ Zhōngguó Kēxuéyuàn, printed]; (white): 1983.VI.20 [handwritten] / 采集者: 陈元清 [ Cǎijízhě, Chén Yuánqīng, printed]; (red, printed): HOLOTYPE; (white, printed): IOZ(E) 905925. Paratypes: 1 ♀: same data as holotype except ALLOTYPE printed on sea-green paper and IOZ(E) 905926. 5 ♂, 3 ♀: same data as holotype except PARATYPE printed on yellow paper and IOZ(E) 905927-905934. 1 ♂: (white): 四川 [ Sìchuān, printed] 泸定磨西海 [ Lúdìng Móxī, Hǎi handwritten] / 螺沟 1550m [ Luógōu, handwritten] / 中国科学院 [ Zhōngguó Kēxuéyuàn, printed]; (white): 1982.IX.16 [handwritten] / 采集者 王書永 [ Cǎijízhě, Wáng Shūyǒng, printed]; (yellow, printed): PARATYPE; (white, printed): IOZ(E) 905935. 1 ♀: ditto, IOZ(E) 905936. 1 ♀: same data as holotype except PARATYPE printed on yellow paper, 1500m, 采集者: 张学忠 [ Cǎijízhě, Zhāng Xuézhōng, printed] and IOZ(E) 905937. 1 ♂: ditto, IOZ(E) 905938.

Remarks.

Leptomias moxiensis is also an endemic species of China. It is recorded only from Luding, the central region of Sichuan (Fig. 24). Leptomias moxiensis can be identified by the following characters: prothorax broadest in middle, pronotum corrugated, with very fine, deep median longitudinal groove; antennae with scape reaching posterior margin of eye when at rest; elytra every interstriae with one column setae; prementum with two setae; procoxae separated from each other, inner sides flat; metatibiae with mucro.