Aetheomorpha furcata Medvedev and Kantner , 2002

Wang, Feng-Yan & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2012, Taxonomy of the genus Aetheomorpha Lacordaire (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini) from China, with description of five new species, Journal of Natural History 46 (23 - 24), pp. 1407-1440 : 1423

Aetheomorpha furcata Medvedev and Kantner, 2002

( Figures 6A–I , 12F )

Medvedev and Kantner, 2002: 262 (type locality: Thailand, prov. Mae Hong Son, Soppong ; holotype deposited: NHMB) .

Material examined

CHINA: Yunnan: one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengla , 7 May 1959, leg. Fuji Pu ; one male, one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengla , 20 May 1959, leg. Facai Zhang ; one male, one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengla , 24 May 1959, leg. Zhenfu Li ; one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengla , 8 June 1959, leg. Yiran Zhang ; one male, two females, Xishuangbanna, Meng’a , 2 July 1958, leg. Shuyong Wang ; one male, Xishuangbanna, Jinghong , 6 July 1958, leg. Xuwu Meng ; two females, Xishuangbanna, Jinghong , 6 August 1958, leg. Xuwu Meng ; one male, Xishuangbanna, Jinghong , 10 May 1959, leg. Xuezhong Zhang ; two females, Xishuangbanna, Jinghong , 25 May 1959, leg. Xuezhong Zhang ; one female, Xishuangbanna, Menghun , 12 June 1958, leg. Leyi Zheng ; one male, one female, Xishuangbanna, Xiaomengyang , 5 July 1957, leg. Lingchao Zang ; one female, Xishuangbanna, Damenglong , 7 July 1958, leg. Chunpei Hong ; one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengzhe , 3 July 1958, leg. Shuyong Wang ; one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengna , 28 June 1959, leg. Fuji Pu ; one female, Yiwubanna, Menglun , 25 July 1959, leg. Yiran Zhang ; one female, Kunming , 1 June 1957, leg. Lingchao Zang ( IZ-CAS) .

Distribution

China (Yunnan), Thailand, Laos. This species is recorded for the first time from China.

Remarks

Aetheomorpha furcata Medvedev and Kantner, 2002 is close to A. decemnotata ( Jacoby, 1892) in the colour pattern: the pronotum is completely fulvous and elytron is covered with four black spots. The obviously broad bidentate aedeagal apex is a useful character by which to recognize A. furcata Medvedev and Kantner. Moreover , this species also has the following characters: vertex and scutellum fulvous, body more slender, spermathecal duct very long, loosely coiled dozens of times with a thickened base. Moreover, the dorsal rectal sclerites are different from those in the other congeneric species, central sclerite is semicircular, lateral ones are sub-triangular.

Figures

Figure 6. Aetheomorpha furcata Medvedev and Kantner: (A) habitus; (B) maxilla; (C) labium; (D) male genitalia in dorsal view; (E) male genitalia in lateral view; (F) male genitalia in ventral view; (G) spermatheca; (H) rectal sclerites in ventral view; (I) rectal sclerites in dorsal view. Scales 0.5 mm.

Figure 12. Habitus of Aetheomorpha: (A) Aetheomorpha bidentata sp. nov.; (B) Aetheomorpha bilobata sp. nov.; (C) Aetheomorpha obtusapicata sp. nov.; (D) Aetheomorpha punctistriata sp. nov.; (E) Aetheomorpha wangi sp. nov.; (F) Aetheomorpha furcata Medvedev and Kantner; (G) Aetheomorpha bacboensis Medvedev; (H) Aetheomorpha coerulea (Jacoby); (I) Aetheomorpha decemnotata (Jacoby).