Protaetia (Liocola) miharai ( Alexis & Delpont, 1998 )

Mückstein, Petr, 2021, A new species and a new country record in the genus Protaetia Burmeister, 1842 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) from Vietnam, Zootaxa 4952 (1), pp. 192-200 : 199

Protaetia (Liocola) miharai ( Alexis & Delpont, 1998) ( Figs. 25–29 )

Liocola miharai Alexis & Delpont, 1998: 170 , figs 3, 5 (habitus, male genitalia).

Protaetia (Liocola) miharai: Krajčík 2012: 224 ; Ziani et al. 2015: 26 (new country record); Bezděk 2016: 378 (catalogue).

Type locality. “Takilek” [= Tachileik , Myanmar] .

Material examined. Vietnam: 1 ♂ ( PMCH), Yen Bai province, July 2020, local collector leg., P. Mückstein det., S. Jákl rev. New country record for Vietnam.

Remark. This rare species was described from northeastern Myanmar. Later, it was reported from Yunnan province of China ( Ziani et al. 2015). This new record significantly expands the known distribution area of the species south, to the mountainous territory of northern Vietnam.

Distribution. Myanmar; China: Yunnan; Vietnam (new record).

Figures

FIGURES 25‒29. Habitus of Protaetia (Liocola) miharai (Alexis & Delpont, 1998), male, Vietnam,Yen Bai province (PMCH). 25, dorsal view; 26, ventral view; 27, lateral view; 28, aedeagus in dorsal view; 29, aedeagus in lateral view. Not to scale.