Phaeaphodius kiulungensis ( Balthasar, 1932 )

Dellacasa, Marco & Dellacasa, Giovanni, 2016, Systematic revision of the genus Phaeaphodius Reitter, 1892 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Zootaxa 4162 (1), pp. 143-163 : 151-153

Phaeaphodius kiulungensis ( Balthasar, 1932)

( Figs. 24–28 )

Aphodius (Limaroides) kiulungensis Balthasar, 1932: 110 ; Balthasar 1964: 152.

Aphodius (Phaeaphodius) kiulungensis: Stebnicka & Galante 1991: 725 ; Dellacasa & Dellacasa 2006: 133.

Phaeaphodius kiulungensis: Dellacasa & Dellacasa 2016: 144 .

Type locality. Tatsienlu-Kiulung , Szetschwan [Sichuan, China].

Type depository. Narodni Muzeum Prirodovedecke Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic (type specimens not examined).

Redescription. Length 5.0–6.0 mm; oblong-elongate, strongly convex, shiny, glabrous. Head, pronotum, and scutellum black; elytra dirty yellow with piceous suture; legs brown, tarsi paler; antennal club piceous. Head with epistome gibbous, anteriorly transversely carinate, sparsely and finely punctate on disc; punctation coarser and confusedly subrugose distally; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, widely round on sides, thinly bordered, edge feebly upturned, glabrous; genae obtusely round, setose, protruding from the eyes; front sparsely and irregularly punctate. Pronotum transverse, strongly convex, dually punctate; large punctures six to seven times larger than small punctures, denser on sides; small punctures almost regularly scattered throughout; lateral margins feebly arcuate, thickly bordered, edge sparsely setose; hind angles distinctly truncate; base not bordered, from center to the level of fifth elytral interstria the margin is crenulate by a contiguous belt of large punctures. Scutellum triangularly elongate, flat, with few large punctures on basal third. Elytra oblong, strongly convex, distinctly striate; striae deep, crenulate; interstriae almost flat, sparsely and finely punctate. Protibiae spur regularly acuminate apically in both sexes. Metatibiae superior spur somewhat shorter than first metatarsomere; latter shorter than following 3 metatarsomeres combined. Male: head with epistome more sparsely and less coarsely punctate, frontal suture with distinct median tubercle, the lateral sutures transverse; pronotum without large punctures on disc; inferior spur of metatibiae curved at apex; aedeagus Figs. 27–28 . Female: head with epistome more densely and more coarsely punctate; median tubercle of frontal suture transverse, the lateral sutures almost obsolete; pronotum with some large punctures on disc.

Distribution. China (Fujian, Sichuan, Xizang).

Material examined. CHINA: Sichuan: Baoxing , 100 km N of Yaan, 12–14.VII.1995, Z. Jindra leg. (1 specimen, DCG) ; Ta-tsien-lou, 1895 (2 specimens, DCG); 20 km NW Maowen , 2150 m, 7–28.VI.2004, R. Fabbri leg. (2 specimens, DCG) .

Bionomics. Some specimens were collected in coniferous forest above 2000 m.

Figures

FIGURES 24 – 33. Phaeaphodius kiulungensis (Balthasar, 1932) (China, Sichuan, Baoxing, 100 km N of Yaan). 24, epipharynx; 25 – 26. habitus (scale bar and morphological details); 27 – 28. aedeagus (dorsal and lateral views). Phaeaphodius novikovi (Kabakov, 1998) (Ukraine, Donetskaya Oblasty, Telmanovskij, Samsonovo z. - k., “ Khomutovskaya Step ”, paratype). 29, epipharynx; 30 – 31, habitus (morphological details and scale bar); 32 – 33, aedeagus (dorsal and lateral views).