Pelthydrus (s. str.) madli Schönmann, 1995

Zhu, Bingyue, Ji, Lanzhu & Bian, Dongju, 2018, A new species and a new record of Pelthydrus Orchymont, 1919 from Yunnan, China (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilinae), Zootaxa 4438 (1), pp. 189-194 : 194

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.1.12
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5989128
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scientific name	Pelthydrus (s. str.) madli Schönmann, 1995
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Pelthydrus (s. str.) madli Schönmann, 1995 View in CoL ( Figs. 3–4 View FIGURES 1–4 , 6 View FIGURES 5–6 , 7 View FIGURE 7 )

Pelthydrus madli Schönmann 1995: 124 View in CoL –125.

Material Examined: 4exs. (IAECAS): CHINA: Yunnan Province, Ruili City, Dayingjiang National Scenic Area, Moli Management Office, 24°06'N, 98°00'E, 127 m, 18. 10. 2016, leg Wang, Peng & Sun. 2exs. (IAECAS): CHINA: Yunnan Province, Ruili City, Moli First Production Team, 24°07'N, 98°00'E, 127 m, 18. 10. 2016, leg Wang, Peng & Sun.

Diagnosis. This species belongs to the Pelthydrus truncatus species group. Habitus as in Figs. 3–4 View FIGURES 1–4 . BL: 2.90 – 3.05 mm, BW: 1.55 – 1.65 mm. Body elongate oval, dorsally nearly flat, apex of elytra (combined) truncated, surface shiny black. Head rather rectangular; anterior margin of clypeus straight; pronotum trapezoidal, with lateral margins nearly straight. Elytra almost parallel sided along basal 0.35, and then gradually narrowed posteriorly; small ground punctures sparsely distributed. Mesoventrite with apically acute triangular plate and median longitudinal carina; metaventrite with aposterior flask-shaped, flat and smooth glabrous area, whose bottleneck a little short; first sternite with a medial longitudinal carina not reaching posterior margin. Aedeagus ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 5–6 ). 0.50 mm long, nearly parallel sided, parameres about 1.1 times as long as phallobase; median lobe wide, gradually narrowing towards rounded apex, gonopore sinuated at distal 1/4; parameres somewhat exceeding median lobe, apical portion slightly pointing towards midline.

Distribution. China: Yunnan (it is recorded from China for the first time), Thailand.

Remarks. A newly generated partial sequences of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) is deposited in GenBank under accession number MG554386 View Materials .