Tetraserica parasetuliforceps sp. n. Figures 9, 49

Type material examined.

Holotype: ♂ "THAILAND, Prov. Tak, Doi Mussoi, 800 m a.V. 2010, leg. T. Ihle 16°45, 309'N, 98°55, 404'E/ 901 Sericini Asia spec." (NME).

Description.

Length of body: 7.6 mm; length of elytra: 6 mm; maximum width: 4.9 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: 0.63. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.73. Metatibia short and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.

Aedeagus: Fig. 9 J–L . Habitus: Fig. 9M.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis.

Tetraserica parasetuliforceps sp. n. differs from T. setuliforceps sp. n. by the longer parameres, with the left paramere being as long as phallobase.

Etymology .

The species name (noun in apposition) is derived from the combined Greek prefix para- (near) and the species name setuliforceps, with reference to the similarity to the previous species.