Tetraserica nahaeoensis, Fabrizi, Silvia, Dalstein, Vivian & Ahrens, Dirk, 2019

Fabrizi, Silvia, Dalstein, Vivian & Ahrens, Dirk, 2019, A monograph on the genus Tetraserica from the Indochinese region (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini), ZooKeys 837, pp. 1-155 : 54

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.837.32057

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CA0A4BE2-C4D9-43BA-BDE2-89EC261A1AB2

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scientific name

Tetraserica nahaeoensis
status

sp. n.

Tetraserica nahaeoensis sp. n. Figures 21, 49

Type material examined.

Holotype: ♂ "Coll. I. R. Sc. N. B. THAILAND (loei), Na-Haeo (field res stat) 15-19.V.2003 Light trap Leg. J. Constant, K. Smets & P. Grootaert/ 143 Sericini Asia spec." (ISNB). Paratypes: 1 ♂ "Coll. I. R. Sc. N. B. THAILAND (loei), Na-Haeo (field res stat) 15-19.V.2003 Light trap Leg. J. Constant, K. Smets & P. Grootaert" (ISNB), 1 ♂ "Coll. I. R. Sc. N. B. THAILAND (Loei Prov.) Na-Haeo (Field Res. St.) 15-19.V.2003 Light trap Leg Constant & K. Smets" (ZFMK), 1 ♂ "Coll. I. R. Sc. N. B. THAILAND (Loei) Na-Haeo (edge pond) Light trap 17.V.2003 Leg. J. Constant, K. Smets" (ISNB), 1 ♂ "Coll. I. R. Sc. N. B. Thailand, Loei Na Haeo 22/V/2000 Station Leg. P. Grootaert" (ZFMK), 1 ♂ "Coll. I. R. Sc. N. B. Thailand (Loei) Na Haeo 23/05/1998 Leg. P. Grootaert" (ISNB), 1 ♂ "Thai 21-26.V.1993, Namuang Pacholátko & Dembicky leg./ coll. P. Pacholátko / TS92" (CPPB).

Description.

Length of body: 9.6 mm; length of elytra: 6.9 mm; maximum width: 6 mm. Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Eyes small, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.55. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.77. Metatibia short and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3.12; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.

Aedeagus: Fig. 21 E–G. Habitus: Fig. 21.

Female unknown.

Variation.

Length of body: 8.4-9.6 mm; length of elytra: 6.5-6.9 mm; maximum width: 5.9-6.0 mm.

Diagnosis.

Tetraserica nahaeoensis sp. n. differs from all other Tetraserica species in having a moderately long median phallobasal lamina being narrowed distally, curved dorsally, and having a dorsal tooth at apex; simple left parameres, the shorter right paramere (being one third as long as phallobase), the nearly straight left paramere.

Etymology.

The new species is named after the type locality, Na-Haeo (adjective in the nominative singular).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

Tribe

Sericini

Genus

Tetraserica