Miridiba youweii Gao & Fang, 2018

Gao, Chuan-bu & Coca-Abia, María Milagro, 2021, Revision of the genus Miridiba Reitter, 1902 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae): genital morphotypes and new taxonomic data, European Journal of Taxonomy 749, pp. 1-94 : 47

Miridiba youweii Gao & Fang, 2018

Miridiba youweii Gao & Fang in Gao et al., 2018: 9 , figs 4, 6 (type loc.: Jingdong, Yunnan, China).

Miridiba youweii – Gao et al. 2019: 462 (species list; in key).

Diagnosis

See Gao et al. (2018).

Remarks

Gao et al. (2018) described Miridiba youweii based on the male holotype and 110 paratypes (71 males and 39 females) conserved in IZCAS. Antenna 9-segmented, pronotal surface densely punctate and parameres with two dorsal and two ventral branches ( Gao et al. 2018: fig. 4) allow us to include M. youweii in morphotype I “ Trichophora ”.

Distribution

China (Guizhou, Yunnan, Zhejiang)

Species included in Morphotype II “Gressitti”

The group is composed of two species, which are characterized by antenna 10-segmented, pronotal surface scattered punctate (distance between punctures greater than diameter of puncture), and male and female genitalia as specified above.