Hoplasoma kelantana Medvedev, 2019

Medvedev, L. N., 2019, New and poorly known Oriental Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera), Russian Entomological Journal 28 (2), pp. 165-168 : 167

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15298/rusentj.28.2.08

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3934381B-FFA0-FFA9-FCF9-FE542A3AF317

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Felipe

scientific name

Hoplasoma kelantana Medvedev
status

sp. nov.

Hoplasoma kelantana Medvedev , sp.n.

Fig. 8 View Figs 1–11 .

MATERIAL. Holotype, ♂: Malaysia W., Kelantan, 40 km N of Gua Musang Gunnung Berangkat Kampong Riek; 1100 m, 15.V.– 8.VI.2017, Petr Cechovsky lgt. ( NME). Paratypes: same locality and date, 2 ♀♀ ( NME, LM) .

DESCRIPTION. Fulvous; labrum, underside, anterior tibiae, tarsi and base of femora, mid and hind legs black.

Body elongate, shining. Head impunctate, frontal tubercles subquadrate, vertex grooved in middle. Antennae of male reach apical slope of elytra, proportions of segments are as 6- 2-7-7-7-7-6-6-6-7-7, segments 5–11 about 5–6 times as long as wide. Prothorax 1.6 times as wide as long, with deep transverse impression, finely and very sparsely punctate, with microsculptured interspaces. Scutellum triangular with round- ed apex, impunctate, microsculptured. Elytra about 1.6 times as long as wide, finely and very densely punctate, with microsculptured interspaces,. Tarsal segment 1 of all legs narrow and elongate. Abdomen without processes. Aedeagus — Fig. 8 View Figs 1–11 . Length of body 8.3–8.4 mm.

DIAGNOSIS. Near H. majorina Laboissiere, 1929 from China and Indochina, differs in having black labrum and legs as well as very unusual aedeagus.

NME

Sammlung des Naturkundemseum Erfurt

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Hoplasoma

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