Tetraserica parasetuliforceps, 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 : 30-32

Tetraserica parasetuliforceps sp. n. Figures 9, 49

Type material examined.

Holotype: ♂ "THAILAND, Prov. Tak, Doi Mussoi, 800 m a.V. 2010, leg. T. Ihle 16°45, 309'N, 98°55, 404'E/ 901 Sericini Asia spec." (NME).

Description.

Length of body: 7.6 mm; length of elytra: 6 mm; maximum width: 4.9 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. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.73. Metatibia short and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.

Aedeagus: Fig. 9 J–L. Habitus: Fig. 9M.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis.

Tetraserica parasetuliforceps sp. n. differs from T. setuliforceps sp. n. by the longer parameres, with the left paramere being as long as phallobase.

Etymology.

The species name (noun in apposition) is derived from the combined Greek prefix para- (near) and the species name setuliforceps , with reference to the similarity to the previous species.