Meligethes flavimanus Stephens, 1830 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

Meligethes flavimanus Stephens, 1830 New record to China ( Figs 7–8 , 60–64 )

Meligethes flavimanus Stephens, 1830 ; Cooke, 1993: 271.

Meligethes asperrimus Guillebeau, 1897: 225 ; Audisio et al., 2003: 129.

Description. Length 3 mm, breadth 1.2–1.3 mm, height 1.0 mm. Body convex and oval, black, pronotum sides and legs dark brown; head and pronotum with dense and evident golden yellow pubescence. Elytra as long as their combined width, both sides of elytra are curved, sharply narrowing distad and almost transverse at apices. Prosternal process elongated with apex narrowly arcuated, broadened part with parallel-sides and narrower than antennal club.Tegmen and median lobe (penis trunk) sclerotised. Male genitalia with Y-shaped apical excision on tegmen, truncatus at apex of median lobe.

Material examined. 1♂, China, Shaanxi, Ningshan, Huoditang (elev. 1 580 m). 18 August 1998, leg. De-Cheng Yuan.

Distribution. China (Shaanxi), France, England.

Figures

Figs 1–8. Habitus, ♂. 1–2. Meligethes polyedricus sp. nov. 3–4. M. alani Kirejtshuk, 1988. 5–6. M. dilutipes Easton, 1956. 7–8. M. flavimanus Stephens. Scale bars=0.5mm.

Figs 60–64. Meligethes flavimanus Stephens, 1830, ♂. 60. Head. 61. Front tibia. 62. Prosternal process. 63. Tegmen, ventral view. 64. Medial lobe of aedeagus, ventral. Scale bar=0.5 mm.