Tetraserica mengeana, Liu, Wan-Gang, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Yang, Xing-Ke & Ahrens, Dirk, 2014

Liu, Wan-Gang, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Yang, Xing-Ke & Ahrens, Dirk, 2014, A taxonomic review on the species of Tetraserica Ahrens, 2004, of China (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini), ZooKeys 448, pp. 83-121 : 102

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Scarabaeidae

Tetraserica mengeana sp. n.

Type material examined.

Holotype: ♂ [China] "Meng'e, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, 19.V.1958, 1050-1080m, leg. Hong Chunpei" (IZAS). Paratypes: 1 ♂ [China] "Menghai, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, 19.VII.1958, 1200-1600m, leg. Wang Shuyong" (IZAS), 1 ♂ [China] "Menghun, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, 18.V.1958, 1200-1400m, leg. Zhang Yiran" (IZAS), 1 ♂ [China] "Yunnan, Huanglianshan, 2012-V-9, 1800m/ LW-1277" (IZAS), 1 ♂ [China] "Meng'e, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, 19.V.1958, 1050-1080m, leg. Hong Chunpei" (ZFMK).

Description.

Body length: 7.4 mm, length of elytra: 5.7 mm, width: 4.3 mm. Body reddish brown. Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Eyes large; ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.7. Antennal club 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.5. Metafemur dull, anterior margin acute, without submarginal serrated line; anterior row of setae-bearing punctures absent; posterior margin straight. Metatibia short and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3.2; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length. Aedeagus. Fig. 8 A–C. Habitus: Fig. 8D.

Female unknown.

Variation.

Body length: 7.4-8.6 mm, length of elytra: 5.7-7 mm, width: 4.3-5.9 mm.

Diagnosis.

Tetraserica mengeana sp. n. differs from all other species with a brush of robust trichome-like spines at the base of the right paramere by the left paramere being split into two filiform branches behind the middle.

Etymology.

The new species is named after its type locality, Meng'e.