Leptomias zheduoshanensis Chen, 1992

Song, Zhenzhen, Ren, Li, Zhang, Runzhi & Zhou, Chenggang, 2017, Review of the species of Leptomias Faust from Sichuan, China (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae), ZooKeys 678, pp. 97-119 : 106-107

Leptomias zheduoshanensis Chen, 1992

Leptomias zheduoshanensis Chen, 1992. In: Chen S (Ed) Insects of the Hengduan Mountains region 2: 842-843.

Type material examined.

Holotype, ♂: (white): 四川 [ Sìchuān, printed] 康定 [ Kāngdìng, handwritten] / 4200m [handwritten] / 中国科学院 [ Zhōngguó Kēxuéyuàn, printed]; (white): 1983.VII.13 [handwritten] / 采集者: 陈元清 [ Cǎijízhě, Chén Yuánqīng, printed]; (red, printed): HOLOTYPE; (white, printed): IOZ(E) 905953. Paratypes: 1 ♀: same data as holotype except ALLOTYPE printed on sea-green paper and IOZ(E) 905954. 2 ♂, 2 ♀: same data as holotype except PARATYPE printed on yellow paper and IOZ(E) 905955, IOZ(E) 905957, IOZ(E) 905959, IOZ(E) 905961. 1 ♂: (white): 四川 [ Sìchuān, printed] 康定折多 [ Kāngdìng Zhéduō, handwritten] / 山 垭口 4200m [ Shān Yàkǒu, handwritten] / 中国科学院 [ Zhōngguó Kēxuéyuàn, printed]; (white): 1983.VII.13 [handwritten] / 采集者 王書永 [ Cǎijízhě, Wáng Shūyǒng, printed]; (yellow, printed): PARATYPE; (white, printed): IOZ(E) 905956. 1 ♂: ditto, IOZ(E) 905960. 1 ♂: (white): 四川 [ Sìchuān, printed] 康定 [ Kāngdìng, handwritten] / 3100m [handwritten] / 中国科学院 [ Zhōngguó Kēxuéyuàn, printed]; (white): 1983.VI.24 [handwritten] / 采集者 [ Cǎijízhě, printed] 陈元清 [ Chén Yuánqīng, handwritten]; (yellow, printed): PARATYPE; (white, printed): IOZ(E) 905962. 1 ♀: ditto, IOZ(E) 905963. 1 ♀: (white): 四川 [ Sìchuān, printed] 康定 [ Kāngdìng, handwritten] / 4200m [handwritten] / 中国科学院 [ Zhōngguó Kēxuéyuàn, printed]; (white): 1983.VII.13 [handwritten] / 采集者: [ Cǎijízhě, printed] 牛春来 [ Niú Chūnlái, handwritten]; (yellow, printed): PARATYPE; (white, printed): IOZ(E) 905958.

Remarks.

Leptomias zheduoshanensis is another endemic species of China which recorded from Sichuan (Kangding). It is narrowly distributed in the central region of Sichuan (Fig. 24). Leptomias zheduoshanensis , L. foveicollis and L. thibetanus are all distributed in Kangding County. Leptomias zheduoshanensis differs from L. thibetanus by the following characters: prothorax broadest in middle; striae with small punctures; rostrum dorsal surface with a narrow and deep median sulcus, not reach the vertex; elytra every interstriae with one column setae; penis bent upwards at apex.