Tetraserica shunbiensis, 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 : 93

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Scarabaeidae

Tetraserica shunbiensis sp. n.

Type material examined.

Holotype: ♂ "Shunbi, Yangbi, Yunnan, 16.VIII.2009, leg. Shi Fuming" (HBUM).

Description.

Body length: 8.9 mm, length of elytra: 6.3 mm, width: 5 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: 0.66. Antenna missing in holotype. 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, without blunt tooth. Metatibia short and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3.4; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.

Aedeagus. Fig. 3 I–K. Habitus: Fig. 3L.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis.

The new species differs from Tetraserica damaidiensis in the shape of the parameres: the left paramere is straight instead of being curved dorsally (Fig. 3I), the right paramere is slender in dorsal view, lacking the basal dorsal tooth (Fig. 3J) which is present in Tetraserica damaidiensis .

Etymology.

The new species is named after its type locality, Shunbi.