Neodima Schimmel & Platia, 1992

Qiu, Lu, 2021, A new Neodima species (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini), with notes on the distribution and morphology of the genus, Zootaxa 5067 (1), pp. 115-121 : 116

Genus Neodima Schimmel & Platia, 1992 R叩fflƌ

Neodima Schimmel & Platia, 1992: 299 (original description); Schimmel 1996: 153; Cate et al. 2007: 184 (catalogue); Kundrata et al. 2018: 29 (catalogue); Kundrata et al. 2019: 43 (revision).

Type species. Neodima sichuanensis Schimmel & Platia, 1992 .

Checklist of Neodima species

Neodima sichuanensis Schimmel & Platia, 1992 川R叩ffl— Sichuan (Leshan: Mt. Emei )

Neodima cechovskyi Schimmel, 1998 IJ 氏R叩ffl— Sichuan (Dujiangyan: Mt. Qingchengshan )

Neodima belousovi Prosvirov & Kundrata, 2019 in Kundrata et al. (2019) AE氏R叩ffl— Sichuan (Ya’an: Hanyuan) Neodima yutangi sp. nov. Ṫ堂R叩ffl— Sichuan (Mianyang: Beichuan)

Key to species of genus Neodima

1. Elytra short, up to 1.75 times longer than wide; frontal margin of mesanepisternum distinctly concave........................................................................................... N. sichuanensis Schimmel & Platia

-. Elytra elongate, more than 1.85 times longer than wide; frontal margin of mesanepisternum straight.................... 2

2. Elytra more or less uniformly colored, without stripes........................................................ 3

-. Elytra bicolored, with distinct dark longitudinal stripes. Median lobe of aedeagus internally with small sclerotized hook-like sclerite................................................................... N. belousovi Prosvirov & Kundrata

3. Hind angles of pronotum less divergent, punctures on pronotum large and dense ( Fig. 4D of Kundrata et al. 2019); prosternal process apico-ventrally strongly declivous and dorsally straight. Male unknown.................. N. cechovskyi Schimmel

-. Hind angles of pronotum more divergent, punctures on pronotum small and sparse ( Fig. 2A ); apex of prosternal process distinctly curved ventrad. Aedeagus with a large, elongate and serrated sclerite inside median lobe......... N. yutangi sp. nov.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Characters of Neodima yutangi sp. nov., holotype, male. (A) head, pronotum and scutellar shield, dorsal view. (B) pro- and mesothorax, ventral view. (C) elytral punctures, dorsal view. (D) metacoxal plate, ventral view. The shape of punctures is delineated in the white squares in A and C. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.

FIGURE 4. Distribution map and habitat. (A) Distribution map of Neodima. Green square: N. sichuanensis; blue dot: N. cechovskyi; yellow triangle: N. belousovi; red star: N. yutangi sp. nov. (B) Habitat of N. yutangi sp. nov., Yaowanggu, Beichuan, Sichuan. Photo: Yu-Tang Wang (June 2021).