Tetraserica linaoshanica, 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 : 104-105

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Scarabaeidae

Tetraserica linaoshanica sp. n.

Type material examined.

Holotype: ♂ [China] "Mts. Linaoshan, Langping, Tianlin, Guangxi, 28.V.2002, 1400m, leg. Jiang Guofang" (IZAS).

Description.

Body length: 8.8 mm, length of elytra: 6.6 mm, width: 5.2 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: 0.63. Antennal club 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 moderately long and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3.69; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.

Aedeagus. Fig. 9 E–G. Habitus: Fig. 9H.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis.

Tetraserica linaoshanica sp. n. differs from all Tetraserica species with a brush of robust trichome-like spines at the base of the right paramere by the left paramere possessing a small lateral basal tooth.

Etymology.

The new species is named after its type locality, Mt. Linaoshan.