Meligethes matronalis Audisio & Spornkraft, 1990 New

Lin, Xiao-Li, Chen, Ying, Huang, Min & Yang, Xing-Ke, 2015, A new species of the genus Meligethes Stephens (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae) from China, Zoological Systematics 40 (3), pp. 268-289 : 273-276

Meligethes matronalis Audisio & Spornkraft, 1990 New record to China ( Figs 11–12 , 70–74 )

Meligethes matronalis Audisio & Spornkraft, 1990: 72 ; Ericson & Bertil, 1999: 124; Lason, 2004: 21.

Meligethes subaeneus Sturm,1845: 11 ; Kirejtshuk, 1997: 265; Audisio et al., 2001: 92.

© Zoological Systematics, 40(3): 268–289

© Zoological Systematics, 40(3): 268–289

© Zoological Systematics, 40(3): 268–289

Diagnosis. Length 2.0– 2.5 mm, breadth 1.2–1.3 mm, height 0.7 mm. Body moderately convex and oval, black, with green luster. Head and pronotum with fine and sparse golden yellow pubescence longer than distances among their insertions. Elytra longer than their combined width, both sides of elytra are curved, sharply narrowing distad to round at apices. Prosternal process apex broadly rounded, its broadened part with parallel-sides and equal to antennal club. Tegmen and median lobe (penis trunk) sclerotised. Male genitalia with V-shaped apical excision on tegmen, emarginated at apex of median lobe.

Material examined. 2♂, 2♀, China, Sichuan, Xiangcheng, Zhongredao (elev. 3 500–3 800 m), 5 July 1982, leg. ShuYong Wang.

Distribution. China (Sichuan), Italy, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Austria, Turkey, Caucasus.

Figures

Figs 9–16. Habitus, ♂. 9–10. Meligethes merkli Kirejtshuk. 11–12. M. matronalis Audisio & Spornkraft, 1990. 13–14. M. aeneus (Fabricius, 1775). 15–16. M. auripilis Reitter, 1889. Scale bars=0.5 mm.

Figs 70–74. Meligethes matronalis Audisio & Spornkraft, 1990, ♂. 70. Head. 71. Front tibia. 72. Prosternal process. 73. Tegmen, ventral view. 74. Medial lobe of aedeagus, ventral. Scale bar=0.5 mm.