Liroetis coeruleus ( Jiang, 1990 ) Bezděk, 2021

Bezděk, Jan, 2021, Redefinition of Liroetis, with descriptions of two new species and an annotated list of species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 61 (2), pp. 529-614 : 535

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.37520/aemnp.2021.030

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:06FDFB43-0B61-4DA8-B260-D78ABD62756C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5821674

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/492287F9-DB79-FF91-FCA9-AFF2FAABF873

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Liroetis coeruleus ( Jiang, 1990 )
status

comb. nov.

Liroetis coeruleus ( Jiang, 1990) comb. nov.

( Figs 21 View Figs 21–25 , 27 View Figs 26–31 )

Zangia coerulea Jiang, 1990: 143 , 144 (original description).

Zangia coerulea : Bൾൾඇൾඇ (2010): 490 (catalogue); YൺඇǤ et al. (2015): 274 (key), 274 (noted).

Type locality. ‘[ China:] Sichuan: Emei shan’.

Type material examined. Hඈඅඈඍඒඉൾ:J ( Fig. 21 View Figs 21–25 , only photograph seen), ‘[Sichuan, Mt. Emei, 2100–3100 m / 1955.VI.26. / Zhong-Lin Ge] [in Chinese, w, p] // Oмейшань, 2100–3100 м. / Сычуань 26 У1 1955 / Гэ Цун-лин [w, p, Russian version of the previous label] // [No. 12] [in Chinese, w, h] // Zangia / coerulea / sp. n. / [Identifier:Sheng-Qiao Jiang] [partly in Chinese, w, combined p and h]’ ( IZAS).

Diagnosis. Colouration. Body completely orange except for piceous antennae and metallic blue elytra.

Body length. JJ: 7.8–8.0 mm.

Aedeagus in lateral view as in Fig. 27 View Figs 26–31 . Lateral elevation triangular, placed in apical fifth of aedeagus length. Middle part straight, apical and basal parts moderately bent. Dorsal process as long as median lobe of aedeagus, with narrow and bent base, apically widely divergent, apical part with V-shaped incision.

Female unknown.

Differential diagnosis. Having orange pronotum, head and underside, and metallic blue elytra, Liroetis coeruleus is similar to L. aeneipennis and L. violaceipennis . The males of all three species differ in the structure of aedeagus (cf. Figs 26, 27 View Figs 26–31 , 351 View Figs 347–351 ). Moreover, L. violaceipennis has pronotum strongly transverse, twice as wide as long, and Liroetis aeneipennis has body pale brown and elytra metallic green.

Distribution. China: Sichuan (JංൺඇǤ 1990).

IZAS

Institut Zoologii Akademii Nauk Ukraini - Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Liroetis

Loc

Liroetis coeruleus ( Jiang, 1990 )

Bezděk, Jan 2021
2021
Loc

Zangia coerulea

JIANG S. - Q. 1990: 143
1990
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