Denierella serrata Kaszab, 1952

Yang, Yu-Xia & Ren, Guo-Dong, 2007, Review of Chinese species of the genus Denierella Kaszab with a key to the worldwide species (Coleoptera, Meloidae), Zootaxa 1642, pp. 53-59 : 57

Denierella serrata Kaszab, 1952

( Figs 3–4 , 8 , 11, 18–22)

Denierella serrata Kaszab, 1952 . Entomol. Arb., 3: 83–84, 88–89; Kaszab, 1960. Ann. Hist.-nat. Mus. Nat. Hung., 52: 256.

Epicauta apicipennis Tan, 1958 . Acta Entomol. Sinica, 8:163, 165, fig. 4.

Diagnosis. Male ( Fig. 3 ). Body length 14–22 mm, maximal width on elytra 3.0–6.0 mm. Body black, head, clypeus and labrum yellowish-red, maxillary palpi and antennomeres I–II partly dark red. Pronotum laterally, elytron along outer and apical margins, head and body ventrally, all coxae, pro-femur and tibia internally, meso- and metafemur externally gray pubescent; light pubescent apical margin of elytron obviously broader than outer margin, foreleg light pubescent much more densely than mid- and hindleg. Head ( Fig. 8 ) transverse and obliquely widened backwards; very finely and sparsely punctate. Antenna thick, reaching the middle of body, antennomere II twice as long as wide. Pronotum with median longitudinal line deeply concave. Elytra 1.5 times as wide as pronotum at base, elongate and parallel-sided. All tarsal claws (Fig. 11) covered with large teeth ventrally along dorsal blades. Protarsomere I compressed and widened in lateral view, as long as II; protibia only with outer apical spur, short, thin and pointed. External genitalia as in Figs 18–22 .

Female ( Fig. 4 ). Antenna thinner and shorter. Frons with impunctate areas very small. Protarsomere I normal, 1.5 times as long as II; protibia with 2 similar spurs, slightly long, thin and pointed.

Type locality and material. “Fujian“. Holotype and paratypes are deposited in the Alexander Koenig Museum in Bonn.

Material examined. 48 males, 28 females, Wuyi Moutains (116°42 E, 26°54' N), Fujian, 17–27 May 2004, C.X. Yuan and J. Li coll.; 1 female, Luzhou (105°24 E', 28°54'N), Sichuan, 20 July 2002, M. Bai and J.L. Wang coll.; 1 male, 1 female, Huaihua (109°58'E, 27°33'N), Hunan, 21 July 2004, J.L. Wang coll..

Distribution. CHINA: Fujian, Hunan, Zhejiang, Sichuan, and Jiangxi.

Figures

FIGURE 1 – 6. Adult, dorsal view (upper, male; lower, female). 1 – 2, Denierella striolata sp. nov. 3 – 4, Denierella serrata Kaszab, 1952. 5 – 6, Denierella minutiserra Tan, 1988.

FIGURE 7 – 9, Head, dorsal view (male); 10 – 12, Tarsal claw, lateral view. 7, 10, Denierella striolata sp. nov. 8, 11, Denierella serrata Kaszab, 1952. 9, 12, Denierella minutiserra Tan, 1988.

FIGURE 13 – 27. Abdominal tergum IX and outer genitalia. 13, 18, 23, male, abdominal tergum IX, dorsal view; 14, 19, 24, male, spiculum gastrale, ventral view; 15, 20, 25, male, phallobase, ventral view; 16, 21, 26, male, aedeagus, lateral view; 17, 22, 27, female, valvifer, lateral view. Scale bars, 1 mm. 13 – 17, Denierella striolata sp. nov. 18 – 22, Denierella serrata Kaszab, 1952. 23 – 27, Denierella minutiserra Tan, 1988.