Oreoderus arrowi Ricchiardi, 2001

Li, Sha, Ricchiardi, Enrico, Bai, Ming & Yang, Xingke, 2016, A taxonomy review of Oreoderus Burmeister, 1842 from China with a geometric morphometric evaluation (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Valgini), ZooKeys 552, pp. 67-89 : 79-81

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Scarabaeidae

Oreoderus arrowi Ricchiardi, 2001 Fig. 6 A–C

Oreoderus arrowi Ricchiardi, 2001: 521.

Type material examined.

Holotype, ♂, S. China, 10-14.VII.1990, Jinghong, Prov., Yunnan, leg. S. Bečvář, (MCSN).

Additional material examined.

P.R. CHINA: 1♂, Yunnan, Xihuangbanna, Jinghong, 650m, 1958.VII.7, leg. MengXuwu, IOZ(E)902175; 1♂, Yunnan, Xihuangbanna, Damenglong, 650m, 1958.VII.11, leg. ZhengLeyi, IOZ(E)902176; 1♂, Yunnan, Xihuangbanna, Damenglong, 650m, 1958.VII.11, leg. ZhengLeyi, IOZ(E)902177; 1♂, Yunnan, Xihuangbanna, Mengzhe, 870m, 1958.IX.7, leg. Wang Shuyong, IOZ(E)902178; 1♂, Yunnan, Xihuangbanna, Xiaomengyang, 850m, 1958.IX.2, leg. MengXuwu, IOZ(E)902179; 1♂, Yunnan, Xihuangbanna, Xiaomengyang, 1400m, 1957.X.4, leg. Wang Shuyong, IOZ(E)902187; 1♀, Yunnan, Naban River Nature Reserve, Mengsong, Danuoyou, 2007.XII.14, 770m, Danuoyou IV A, 14.XII.2007, leg. A. Weigel, 22.20699°N, 100.63761°E (trap), leg. A. Weigel, IOZ(E)1945434, (IZAS).

Description of female.

Length 8.4 mm; width 2.8mm. Color: light brown to brown. Head: clypeus anteriorly rounded, sharp in the apex, with erected setae. Frons covered with testaceous scales. Ocular canthus short and broad, covered with same scales. Antenna with 10 segments, club much longer than antennomeres 2-7. Pronotum: widest at base, lateral margin sinuate. Surface densely punctate, covered with testaceous scales. Carinae and lateral carinae sharp, highly prominent, ending before middle of pronotum. Scutellum: triangular, rounded at apex, covered with testaceous scales. Elytra: coarsely punctate, covered with testaceous scales. Propygidium : apparently longer than in male, hind margin rounded. Propygidial spiracles moderately el evated. Pygidium: narrower than in male, with thick lied down scales. Venter: coarsely and densely punctate with testaceous scale. Sternite V twice longer than Sternite IV; Sternite VI much narrower than male. Legs: slender, covered with testaceous scales except protibia. Protibia tridentate, tooth blunter than in male; meso- and metatibia with a spine on the outer margin. Tarsomeres much shorter than in male, covered with short setae.

Distribution.

China: Yunnan.