Tetraserica ululalatensis, 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 : 59

Tetraserica ululalatensis sp. n. Figures 24, 51

Type material examined.

Holotype: ♂ "Malaysia W, Kelantan 30 km NW of Gua Musang Ulu Lalat Mt. 800-1000 m Kampong Sungai om 27.v.-19.vi.2011 Petr Cechovsky lgt." (ZFMK).

Description.

Length of body: 7.6 mm; length of elytra: 6.0 mm; maximum width: 4.7 mm. Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Eyes large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.72. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.62. Metatibia moderately long and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3.1; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.

Aedeagus: Fig. 24 E–G. Habitus: Fig. 24H.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis.

Tetraserica ululalatensis sp. n. differs from similar T. fikaceki Liu et al., 2014 by the dorsal lobe of right paramere being directed basally, and the ventral lobe of left paramere being extremely long rather than short.

Etymology.

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