Clerotilia fulvicollis 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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13164378

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3934381B-FFA0-FFA9-FE92-F9DC2DC2F691

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Clerotilia fulvicollis Medvedev
status

sp. nov.

Clerotilia fulvicollis Medvedev , sp.n.

Fig. 7 View Figs 1–11 .

MATERIAL. Holotype, ♂: China- Sichuan prov., Dail Dafolohut Forest near Dail , 110 km W of Chongdu, 21–22.VI.1993, leg. M. Tryzna ( NME). Paratypes: same locality and date, 3 ♀♀ ( NME, 1 ex. — LM) .

DESCRIPTION. Fulvous, head dark metallic blue, antennae piceous or fulvous, scutellum piceous, elytra metallic blue. Head distinctly punctate on vertex, frontal tubercles triangular, convex and impunctate. Antennae of male reach apical slope of elytra, proportions of segments are as 5-3-4-9- 8-8-8-8-9-9-11, segments 510 about 56 times as long as wide. Prothorax twice as wide as long, broadest near middle, feebly convex, finely and sparsely punctate. Scutellum triangular with rounded apex, impunctate. Elytra 1.55 times as long as wide, surface very densely punctate, with very narrow shining interspaces, without basal convexity. Segment 1 of fore and mid tarsi not widened in male. Aedeagus — Fig. 7 View Figs 1–11 . Length of male 4.4 mm, of females 4.5–4.7 mm.

DIAGNOSIS. Resembles C. sichuanica Lopatin, 2002 , but differs with fulvous prothorax and rather short and broad aedeagus.

NME

Sammlung des Naturkundemseum Erfurt

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Clerotilia

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