Niphadomimus alcyone, Grebennikov, 2014

Grebennikov, Vasily V., 2014, DNA barcode and phylogeography of six new high altitude wingless Niphadomimus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) from Southwest China, Zootaxa 3838 (2), pp. 151-173 : 156-157

Niphadomimus alcyone sp. n.

Figs. 1 , 2 , 11A–B .

Diagnostic description. Holotype, female ( Figs. 1 , 11A ). Genbank accession: KJ427731 . Length: 2.78 mm. Color black; prosternal depression not delimited on each side by longitudinal keel; femoral tooth higher than its width at base and markedly developed ( Fig. 2B ); elytral interstriae not tuberculate.

Intraspecific variation. Length 2.45–2.78 mm.

Material examined. Holotype female ( IZCAS): #2439, “P.R. CHINA, Sichuan, NE slope Gongga Shan , N29°53'23" E102°01'31", 08.vi.2011, 3886m, sift13, V.Grebennikov ” . Paratype ( CNC), female ( Figs. 2 , 11B ), #4429, “ CHINA, Sichuan, 23km E Songpan , N32°37'57" E103°49'20", 27.v.2012, 3761m, sifting 12, V. Grebennikov ” .

Distribution. Gongga Shan and Songpan regions in Sichuan, China; in the Gongga Shan area sympatrically with N. celaeno sp. n. Elevation: 3761–3886 m.

Etymology. The species epithet is a Latinized Greek mythical name of Alcyone, one of the Pleiades, mother of Hyrieus, Hyperenor and Aethusa by Poseidon; noun in apposition.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Niphadomimus alcyone sp. n., holotype, female, #2493. A-D: habitus; E: apical part of basal hemisternite 9 (“coxite”) and much smaller apical cylindrical hemisternite 9 (=“stylus”); F: sternites 8 and IX; G: sternite 8 (sternite 9 in the background).

FIGURE 2. Niphadomimus alcyone sp. n., paratype, female, #4429. A–D: habitus; E: spermatheca.

FIGURE 11. Niphadomimus spp., pro, meso- and metathorax, ventral (A–G, I) and left ventro-lateral (H). A: Niphadomimus alcyone sp. n., holotype, female, #2493; B: N. alcyone sp. n., paratype, female, #4429; C: N. celaeno sp. n., holotype, male, #2476; D: N electra sp. n., paratype, female, #0879; E: N. maia sp. n., holotype, male, #2730; F: N. merope sp. n., holotype, female #2201; G: N. nigriventris, male, #0796; H: N. nigriventris, female, #4697; I: N. sterope sp. n., holotype, male, #4475.