Tetraserica ruiliana, Liu, Wan-Gang, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Yang, Xing-Ke & Ahrens, Dirk, 2014

Liu, Wan-Gang, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Yang, Xing-Ke & Ahrens, Dirk, 2014, A taxonomic review on the species of Tetraserica Ahrens, 2004, of China (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini), ZooKeys 448, pp. 83-121 : 105

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.448.8429

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9B49C0CA-19E7-4EB6-B64A-5324E96EFC6B

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D5CBA763-DBD0-4B9A-8053-A43F48426C92

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:D5CBA763-DBD0-4B9A-8053-A43F48426C92

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scientific name

Tetraserica ruiliana
status

sp. n.

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Scarabaeidae

Tetraserica ruiliana View in CoL sp. n.

Type material examined.

Holotype: ♂ [China] "Huyu County, Ruili, Yunnan, 11.VI.1956, 1400m, leg. Zhou Benshou" (IZAS).

Description.

Body length: 9 mm, length of elytra: 7 mm, width: 5.3 mm. Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Eyes moderately large; ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.63. Antennal club 1.3 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.55. Metafemur dull, anterior margin acute, without submarginal serrated line; anterior row of setae-bearing punctures absent; posterior margin straight. Metatibia moderately long and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3.47; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.

Aedeagus. Fig. 9 I–K. Habitus: Fig. 9L.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis.

Tetraserica ruiliana sp. n. differs from all Tetraserica species with a brush of robust trichome-like spines at the base of the right paramere by the dorsal lobe of the right paramere convexly widened and elongate.

Etymology.

The new species is named after its type locality, Ruili.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Tetraserica