Meligethes dilutipes Easton, 1956 New

Lin, Xiao-Li, Chen, Ying, Huang, Min & Yang, Xing-Ke, 2015, A new species of the genus Meligethes Stephens (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae) from China, Zoological Systematics 40 (3), pp. 268-289 : 273

Meligethes dilutipes Easton, 1956 New record to China ( Figs 5–6 , 55–59 )

Meligethes dilutipes Easton, 1956a: 395 .

Description. Length 2.4 mm, breadth 1.4 mm, height 0.7 mm.Bodyconvex and oval, reddish-brown, pronotum yellowish-brown, metaventrite and abdomen reddish-brown, legs and antenna yellow; head and pronotum with fine and sparse grey white pubescence. Elytra as long as their combined width, both sides of elytra curved, sharply narrowing distad to almost transverseat apices. Prosternal process obviously widened with apex broadly rounded, its broadened part distinctly broader than antennal club. Tegmen and median lobe (penis trunk) sclerotised. Male genitalia with Y-shaped apical excision on tegmen, ossiform at apex of median lobe.

Material examined. 1♂, China, Guangxi, Jinxiuhuawang Mountain Villa (elev. 600 m), 20 May 1999, leg. Xing-Ke Yang .

Distribution. China (Guangxi), Afghanistan.

Figures

Figs 1–8. Habitus, ♂. 1–2. Meligethes polyedricus sp. nov. 3–4. M. alani Kirejtshuk, 1988. 5–6. M. dilutipes Easton, 1956. 7–8. M. flavimanus Stephens. Scale bars=0.5mm.

Figs 55–59. Meligethes dilutipes Easton, 1956, ♂. 55. Head. 56. Front tibia. 57. Prosternal process. 58. Tegmen, ventral view. 59. Medial lobe of aedeagus, ventral. Scale bar=0.5 mm.