Hoplasoma nigricollis ( Jiang, 1988 ) Bezděk & Zhang, 2007

Bezděk, Jan & Zhang, Lijie, 2007, Taxonomical changes in the genera Hoplasoma and Haplosomoides (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 47, pp. 189-193 : 192-193

Hoplasoma nigricollis ( Jiang, 1988) , comb. nov.

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Haplosomoides nigricollis Jiang, 1988: 177 , 181. Haplosomoides nigricollis: JIANG (1992) : 657.

Type locality. Sichuan: Yajiang. Type material. PARATYPE: J, ‘[Sichuan Province: Yajiang, 3200m, 27.viii.1882, Coll. Wang Shuyong, host plant: Salix] [two Chinese labels, w, combined p and h] // PARATYPE [yellow label, p]’ ( IZCAS).

Distribution. China (Sichuan).

Comments. Examination of the claws of Haplosomoides nigricollis Jiang, 1988 , clearly

showed that they are bifid as in Hoplasoma and not appendiculate as in Haplosomoides . Moreover, the abdomen bears one pair of processes similar to many Hoplasoma species (although they are surprisingly found on the third ventrite and not on the second one as in other Hoplasoma species , Fig. 4 ). Due to these facts we transfer H. nigricollis to the genus Hoplasoma . Aedeagus as in Fig. 3 .

Figures

Figs. 1-4. 1 – Haplosomoides verticalis Jiang, 1988, aedeagus (a – dorsal view; b – lateral view). 2 – Hoplasoma minor Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963, male abdomen. 3-4. Hoplasoma nigricollis (Jiang, 1988). 3 – aedeagus (a – dorsal view; b – lateral view); 4 – male abdomen. Scale: 1 mm for Figs. 1, 3 and 4; 2 mm for Fig. 2.