Monolepta kuroheri Kimoto, 1966

Lee, Chi-Feng, 2009, A taxonomic revision of Monolepta pallidula species group in Taiwan (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), Zootaxa 2170, pp. 15-27 : 25

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Monolepta kuroheri Kimoto, 1966: 31 ; Kimoto, 1969: 49; Kimoto, 1991: 15.

Description. Total length: males: 6.3–7.4 mm (O: 6.82 mm; n= 6); females: 6.9–8.3 mm (O: 7.42 mm; n= 6). General color yellowish-brown ( Figs. 9–10 View FIGURES 1 – 10 ); antenna blackish-brown except two or three basal antennomeres yellowish-brown; clypeus, labium, and mandibles black; metasternum and metepisternum brown; tibia and tarsi black; scutellum, basal margin, suture of elytron black; black basal margin extending laterally into basal 4/5 of lateral margin. Antennomeres 4–10 about 4.0 times longer than broad at apex in males ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 33 – 38 ); length of second to third antennomere 0.81–1.00 (O: 0.89); length of third to fourth antennomere 0.32–0.36 (O: 0.34) in males ( Fig. 34 View FIGURES 33 – 38 ), 0.42–0.46 (O: 0.44) in females. Pronotal length to width 0.74–0.79 (O: 0.76). Maximal width of elytra to length of elytra 0.59–0.65 (O: 0.62). Length of basi-metatarsus to metatibia 0.48–0.55 (O: 0.50).

Male genitalia ( Fig. 33 View FIGURES 33 – 38 ). Median lobe broad, sub-parallel; apex rounded; with a median longitudinal groove on tectum from middle to base of median lobe, shallow and well sclerotized inside groove. Tectum short, about 0.35 times as long as median lobe; widest near apex, subequal or wider than median lobe. Ventral surface well sclerotized, with a groove from apex to apical 2/3, deepest near middle. Endophallus without dorsal spiculae; median spiculae consisting of four pairs curved sclerites, two apically bifurcate; two ventral spiculae consisting of dense and small teeth.

Female genitalia. Spermathecal cornu ( Fig. 36 View FIGURES 33 – 38 ) slender, loosely coiled near apex; middle part long, medially curved, abruptly narrowed near cornu; nodulus slender, indistinctly delimited from middle part; proximal spermathecal duct long, larger near nodulus, loosely and apically coiled. Dorsal part of bursasclerites ( Fig. 37 View FIGURES 33 – 38 ) reduced and very small, apex with one or several teeth; ventral part ( Fig. 38 View FIGURES 33 – 38 ) slender, apex with dense teeth.

Type material examined. Holotype 3: “( Taiwan) Chihsinliao, Chiayi Hsien / 15.IV.1965 T. Shirôzu / Japan – U.S. Co-op. Sci. Programme / HOLOTYPE / Monolepta kuroheri Kimoto , n. sp. ” ( KUEC); paratypes: 1 3: “( Taiwan) Kuantzuling, Taian Hsien / 7.IV.1965 T. Shirôzu / Japan – U.S. Co-op. Sci. Programme / PARATYPE / Monolepta kuroheri Kimoto , n. sp. ” ( KMNH).

Specimens Examined. 13 (#7306), Taoyuan, Tungman, 02.X.2008, leg. S.-F. Yu; 13 (#6938), Taoyuan, Tamanshan, 02.VIII.2008, leg. M.-H. Tsao; 13 (#6816), Hsinchu, Lupi, 26.VII.2008, leg. M.-H. Tsao; 23 (#6482-6483), Pingtung, Tahanshan, 04.VII.2008, leg. S.-F. Yu; 13, 6ƤƤ (#6441-6447), same date and locality, leg. M.-H. Tsao; 23, same locality, 24.VI.2007, leg. C.-F. Lee; 13, 2ƤƤ, Kaohsiung, Shihshan logging trail, 27.VII.2008, leg. C.-T. Yao; 23, 4ƤƤ, same data but with 31.VII.2008; 13, 1Ƥ, same data but with 12.VIII.2008; 23, 2ƤƤ, same data but with 17.VIII.2008; 53, 2ƤƤ, same data but with 18.VIII.2008; 1Ƥ, same data but with 19.VIII.2008;13, same data but with 09.IX.2008; 1 3, 1Ƥ, same data but with 26.IX.2008; 13, same data but with 09.X.2008; 13, same data but with 10.X.2008; 2ƤƤ, same data but with 11.X.2008; 1Ƥ, Hualien, Hsinpaiyang, 12.IX.2007, leg. Y.-F. Hsu (all in TARI).

Diagnosis. See diagnosis of Monolepta sauteri .

Distribution. Taiwan.