Tetraserica takahashii Kobayashi, 2017

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 : 58-59

Tetraserica takahashii Kobayashi, 2017 Figures 24, 54

Tetraserica takahashii Kobayashi, 2017: 36, figs 3, 12.

Material examined.

1 ♂ "X-DA4503 labcode: VD025/ Vietnam, Quang Binh prov. 1 km N of Cha Lo, 400 m Vietnam-Laos border area 17°41'22"N, 105°45'45"E, 11.-24.iv.2010 L. Dembický leg. (VN1/ 2010 MZM EXPEDDITION) Tetraserica spVI_V3/ X-DA4503/ sp-VI-V2" (ZFMK), 1 ♂ "X-DA4502 labcode: VD024/ Vietnam, Quang Binh prov. 1km N of Cha Lo, 400 m Vietnam-Laos border area 17°41'22"N, 105°45'45"E, 11-24.iv.2010 L. Dembický leg. (VN1/ 2010 MZM EXPEDDITION) Tetraserica spVI_V3/ X-DA4502" (ZFMK), 3 ♂♂ "Vietnam, Quang Binh prov. 1 km N of Cha Lo, 400 m Vietnam-Laos border area 17°41'22"N, 105°45'45"E, L Dembický leg. 11-24.iv.2010" (ZFMK).

Description.

Length of body: 9 mm; length of elytra: 6.8 mm; maximum width: 6.3 mm. Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.58. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.55. Metatibia short and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3.17; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.

Aedeagus: Fig. 24 A–C. Habitus: Fig. 24D.