Tetraserica doipuiensis, 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 : 100

Tetraserica doipuiensis sp. n. Figures 43, 49

Type material examined.

Holotype: ♂ "Thai, Chiang Mai prov., 18°49'N, 98°54'E, 1600 m, DOI PUI mt., 2-6.v., Vít Kubáň leg.1996/ coll. P Pacholátko / 899 Sericini Asia spec." (CPPB).

Description.

Length of body: 6.3 mm; length of elytra: 4.5 mm; maximum width: 3.8 mm. Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.62. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.55. Metatibia short and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3.1; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.

Aedeagus: Fig. 43 K–M. Habitus: Fig. 43N.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis.

Tetraserica doipuiensis sp. n. differs from the similar T. champassakana sp. n. by the left paramere lacking the blunt lateral tooth before the apex and the right paramere being as long as medial phallobasal lamina.

Etymology.

The new species is named after the type locality, Mt Doi Pui (adjective in the nominative singular).