Niphadomimus electra, 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 : 158-159

Niphadomimus electra sp. n.

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Diagnostic description. Holotype, male ( Fig. 4 ). Genbank accession: KJ427746 . Length: 3.76 mm. Color dark reddish; prosternal depression delimited on each side by longitudinal keel; femoral tooth not higher than its width at base and weakly developed; elytral interstriae unevenly and pronouncedly tuberculate with those on interstria 3 markedly enlarged ( Fig. 4A ).

Intraspecific variation. Length 3.18–4.64 mm.

Material examined. Holotype male ( IZCAS): #2727, “P.R. CHINA, Yunnan, Cang Shan at Dali , N25°40'12" E100°06'10", 05.vii.2011, 3740m, sift37, V.Grebennikov ” . Paratypes ( CNC, CMN, IZCAS, MTD, ZIN): female, #0879, “P.R. CHINA, Yunnan, E slope Cangshan at Dali , N25°40'07.6 E100°06'12.9, 19.v.2010, 3887m, sifting18, V.Grebennikov ”; 50 exx, #2707–09 and 47 exx not numbered, “P.R. CHINA, Yunnan, Cang Shan at Dali, N25°40'07" E100°06'14", 04.vii.2011, 3890m, sift35, V.Grebennikov ”; 29 exx, #2728, #2729 and 27 exx not numbered, same data as holotype .

Distribution. Eastern slope on Cang Shan range above the city of Dali, Yunnan, China; sympatrically with N. maia sp. n. Elevation: 3740–3890 m.

Etymology. The species epithet is a Latinized Greek mythical name of Electra, one of the Pleiades, mother of Dardanus and Iasion by Zeus; noun in apposition.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Niphadomimus electra sp. n., holotype, male, #2727. A–D: habitus; E: sternites 8 and 9; F–H: aedeagus and tegmen, lateral (F), dorsal (G) and ventral (H).

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.