Microphaeochroops hirsutus Pic, 1930

Shokhin, I. V., 2022, First record of the genus Microphaeochroops Pic, 1930 (Coleoptera: Hybosoridae) from China, Far Eastern Entomologist 455, pp. 14-16 : 15-16

Microphaeochroops hirsutus Pic, 1930

Figs 1–7

Microphaeochroops hirsutus Pic, 1930: 12; Arrow, 1942: 925; Paulian, 1945: 38; Allsopp,

1984: 109; Kuijten, 1985: 8; Ocampo & Ballerio, 2006: 192.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. China: Yunnan prov., env. Pingbian, Daweishan Mt., 1500

m, 17. VI 1956, 1♀, leg. Huan Ke-Zhen et. al. [= Юннань окр. БинбЯна, ДавЭЙшань, 1500

м, 17.VI 1956. сб. Хуан КЭ-Жень и др. ( Fig. 6 )] (ZIN).

2 – head; 3 – scutellum; 4, 5 – mid tarsus; 6 – labels; 7 – distribution-map.

REMARKS. This species was redescribed in detail by Kuijten (1985). The main diagnostic features of female from China are as follows: length 4.5 mm, width 2.4 mm; body unicolorous,

reddish brown; apex of mandible bidentate; eye-canthus is hardly developed ( Figs 1, 2 );

scutellum triangular, densely and coarsely punctate ( Fig. 3 ); first three segments of all tarsi apically inside with tuft of specific flattened, apically round, somewhat claviform, plumose setae ( Figs 4, 5 ). This species was known only from the type locality Chapa in North Vietnam

( Fig. 7 ). New locality in Yunnan, Daweishan (now Daweishan National Nature Reserve) is the humid rainforest in the mainland of China, which belongs to the Beibu-Gulf Center (one of the three biodiversity centers in China) and Indo-Burma hotspot (one of the 34 biodiversity hot-spots worldwide).

Figures

Figs 1–7. Microphaeochroops hirsutus Pic, 1930. 1–6 – female from China: 1 – habitus;