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

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Meligethes matronalis Audisio & Spornkraft, 1990 New record to China ( Figs 11–12 View Figs 9–16 , 70–74 View Figs 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.

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.

References

Hisamatsu, S. 1956. The Nitidulidae of the Amami Islands south of Kyushu, Japan (Coleoptera). Memoirs of the Ehime University. Section VI. (Agriculture), 1: 163 - 169.

Kirejtshuk, A. G. 1979. Novye vidy zhukov-blestyanok podsem. Meligethinae (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) iz Aziatskoi chasti SSSR i sopredel'nykh territorii (New species of subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) from the Asian part of the USSR and adjacent territories). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 88: 50 - 68.

Kirejtshuk, A. G. 1980. New species of Meligethinae (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) from the oriental region and adjacent territories. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 59: 833 - 851.

Kirejtshuk, A. G. 1997. New Palaearctic nitidulid beetles, with notes on synonymy and systematic position of some species (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 6: 255 - 268.

Lason, A. 2004. Epuraea (Epuraea) muehli Reitter, 1908 and Meligethes matronalis Audisio et Spornkraft, 1990 - the beetle species new to the Polish distribution of Kateretidae and Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) in Poland. Wiadomosci Entomologiczne, 23 (1): 21 - 28.