Niphadomimus maia, Grebennikov, 2014

Grebennikov, Vasily V., 2014, DNA barcode and phylogeography of six new high altitude wingless Niphadomimus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) from Southwest China, Zootaxa 3838 (2), pp. 151-173 : 160

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3838.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:62251D9C-65DD-4A4A-8AB9-B885A018D4BD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4922008

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D44787FE-FFE1-FFD7-53D1-2723838BF8F6

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scientific name

Niphadomimus maia
status

sp. nov.

Niphadomimus maia View in CoL sp. n.

Figs. 5 View FIGURE 5 , 11E View FIGURE 11 .

Diagnostic description. Holotype, male ( Figs. 5 View FIGURE 5 , 11E View FIGURE 11 ). Genbank accession: KJ427733 View Materials . Length: 5.00 mm. Color black; prosternal depression delimited on each side by longitudinal keel; femoral tooth not higher than its width at base and weakly developed; elytral interstriae evenly and weakly tuberculate.

Intraspecific variation. Length 5.00– 6.27 mm.

Material examined. Holotype male ( IZCAS): #2730, “P.R. CHINA, Yunnan, Cang Shan at Dali , N25°40'12" E100°06'10", 05.vii.2011, 3740m, sift37, V.Grebennikov ” GoogleMaps . Paratypes ( CNC, IZCAS, MTD): 8 exx, #2731–33 and 5 exx not numbered, same data as holotype GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Eastern slope on Cang Shan range above the city of Dali, Yunnan, China; sympatrically with N. electra sp. n. Elevation: 3740 m.

Etymology. The species epithet is a Latinized Greek mythical name of Maia, eldest of the seven Pleiades, mother of Hermes by Zeus; noun in apposition.

IZCAS

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

CNC

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes

MTD

Museum of Zoology Senckenberg Dresden

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