Miridiba taipei Wang & Li, 2015

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 : 41

Miridiba taipei Wang & Li, 2015

Miridiba taipei Wang & Li in Li et al., 2015: 530 (type loc.: Taipei, Taiwan, China).

Miridiba taipei – Bezděk 2016: 272 (catalogue). — Gao et al. 2018: 16 (catalogue); 2019: 461 (species list; in key).

Diagnosis

See Li et al. (2015).

Remarks

Miridiba taipei was described based on a male holotype and seven type specimens (six males and one female) ( Li et al. 2015). According to the original description, M. taipei can be separated from the similar species M. trichophora and M. hirsuta by having three distinctive morphological characters at the apex of clypeus, anterior margin of pronotum and parameres. We were unable to examine the types of M. taipei but, according to the 9-segmented antenna and shape of parameres, this species is included in this genital morphotype I “ Trichophora ”.

Distribution

China (Taiwan).