Gynaecoserica marginipes ( Brenske, 1896 ) Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2009

Ahrens, Dirk & Fabrizi, Silvia, 2009, A review of the genus Gynaecoserica Brenske, 1896 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini), Journal of Natural History 43 (25 - 26), pp. 1505-1584 : 1564

Gynaecoserica marginipes ( Brenske, 1896) comb. nov.

( Figures 7I , 10A )

Serica marginipes Brenske, 1896: 155 .

Microserica marginipes: Brenske 1898: 318 ; Ahrens 2004: 186.

Neoserica marginipes: Sabatinelli 1993: 628 .

Remarks

The species has to date been classified as Microserica Brenske, 1894 ( Ahrens 2004) ; however, the comparative morphology of the male genital organs of Microserica , Gynaecoserica and other Asian sericine lineages make it more likely that this species is closely related to the other taxa of Gynaecoserica sharing the medially fused parameres (hypothesized synapomorphy of the genus). Therefore, this species is here transferred to Gynaecoserica . Its distribution is limited to the hilly and mountainous regions from East-Nepal to Bhutan ( Figure 10A ).

Figures

Figure 7. Habitus of the species (not to scale). (A) Gynaecoserica digna sp. nov. (4.3 mm; holotype), (B) G.exilis sp. nov. (5.5 mm; holotype), (C) G.gisionensis sp. nov.(3.5 mm; holotype), (D) G. hirsuta sp. nov. (3.9 mm; holotype), (E) G. ignobilis sp. nov. (3.9 mm; holotype), (F) G. lomsakensis sp. nov. (4.4 mm; holotype), (G) G. lubosi sp. nov. (5.8 mm; holotype), (H) G.luteata sp. nov. (4.0 mm; holotype), (I) G. marginipes (Brenske) (4.2 mm; Nepal, Arunthan-Chichila).

Figure 10. Distribution of Gynaecoserica species (A, upper panel; B, lower panel). “?” indicates the rather imprecise type locality (Tenasserim) of G. jelineki sp. nov. in Myanmar.