Gynaecoserica tumba Ahrens, 2004

Ahrens, Dirk & Fabrizi, Silvia, 2009, A review of the genus Gynaecoserica Brenske, 1896 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini), Journal of Natural History 43 (25 - 26), pp. 1505-1584 : 1579

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930902968809

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0399C459-DB60-6F13-FE58-FD5859820DAB

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scientific name

Gynaecoserica tumba Ahrens, 2004
status

 

Gynaecoserica tumba Ahrens, 2004

( Figures 8C View Figure 8 , 10B View Figure 10 )

Gynaecoserica tumba Ahrens, 2004: 107 .

Remarks

The species is so far known only from the type series collected at about 1600 m in Gezing (West Sikkim, India; Figure 10B View Figure 10 ) .

Ahrens D. 2004. Monographie der Sericini des Himalaya (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) [Dissertation]. Berlin: Verlag im Internet GmbH.

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Figure 8. (A–F) Habitus of the species (not to scale). (G–K) Female genitalia (scale bars G,H, 0.5 mm; I–K, 0.25 mm), dorsal overview (G, H), sclerotized portion of ductus bursae, dorsal view. (A) Gynaecoserica nahangensis sp. nov. (4 mm; holotype), (B) G. singhikensis Ahrens (6.7 mm; paratype: Sikkim: Rangeli River), (C) G. tumba Ahrens (5.4 mm; holotype), (D) G. variipennis variipennis (Moser) (6.5 mm; Sikkim, Pemayangtse), (E) G. obliqua sp. nov. (5.3 mm; holotype), (F) G. vogleri sp. nov. (6.1 mm; holotype), (G, J) G. cymosa (Brenske) (Meghalaya; 9 km NW of Jowai), (H, I) G. lobiceps sp. nov. (paratype: West Garo Hills, Nokrek N.P.), (K) G. keithi sp. nov. (paratype: Meghalaya; 9 km NW of Jowai).

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Figure 10. Distribution of Gynaecoserica species (A, upper panel; B, lower panel). “?” indicates the rather imprecise type locality (Tenasserim) of G. jelineki sp. nov. in Myanmar.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

Genus

Gynaecoserica